On Saturday 16 February 2002 17:06, Dwaine Felch wrote:
Linux upgrades are bug fixes for the previous buggy OS, in case you are too blind
To quote the ASR FAQ; "3.1) Are there any OSs that don't suck? No. See http://www.ehlke.net/os-suck.html" All software is buggy, incomplete, and in a state of continual flux until it dies. Such is the nature of software. However, unlike certain commercial vendors, the free software movement don't a) pretend that it's meant to be that way or b) deny that such problems ever existed in the first place (whilst taking pot shots at the bringers of bad news).
to see that. No free upgrades from M$, what do you call each version of Explorer.
Explorer is an app, not an OS in itself.
Security holes? I have an inbox full of linux security updates just in the last month, M$ security holes are widely advertised and linux holes are overlooked by the media.
That's only true to a certain extent. part of the hoo-hah that accompanies any Windows security breach is due to the facts that a) Windows is a monopoly OS and often used by people who really don't know how computers work (thus requiring loud noise to publicise problems, since such people don't go looking for bugfixes and patches of their own volition) and b) Windows holes have a nasty habit of granting complete access to everything on the computer; whereas Linux holes tend to be buffer overflows which *sometimes* grant root-exploitable holes. Pretty much any MS hole results in potential compromise of the entire system.
One independent government study showed linux had more holes than Mac or Win2k.
See http://lwn.net/2002/0207/ - I think you'll find that a) it wasn't a government study and b) the Linux vulnerabilities were summed over all distributions. The highest individual hole count in a Linux distro were with Mandrake and Deadrat (33 holes and 28 holes) - compared to Win NT/2000, which had 42. Additionally, *everything* in a Linux distro was counted; whereas the MS holes were just in the OS. According to that article, Debian 2.2 had 26 holes - in over 2,500 packages. How many security holes are there in an equivalent Windows box - comprising the OS and 2500 other packages, running the gamut from games to office software to programming software?
In my 20 years as a IT specialist I have tested more different OSs and computer hardware configurations than your shallow mind could ever dream of. I enjoy a healthy different opinion that is how we learn. Your intolerance to someone else experience probably gets you nowhere in life.
Yet you still haven't learnt to set line widths properly in your mail client...? Hmm. Dwaine Felch isn't exactly a common name; and look what I found in someone's guestbook... "Name: Dwaine Felch EMail: dwainf@microsoft.com Date: 6/29/2000 Time: 3:02:46 AM Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Comments This is one of the finest web sites around it has earned a bookmark in my browser." It would, of course, be churlish of me to suggest that you'd been subject to "Redmond reprogramming"... *g* Gideon.