From: Jophn Deo (JophnDeo@Phreaker.net)
Date: Sun Aug 22 2004 - 04:34:12 EDT
Sp2 hasn't been faling from the sky on a average rainy day.
An abundance of reading material was avaible to the developer community
maintaining their apps for the ms platform, in this case xp.
A lot off software,packages , ports or whatever such as ethereal
how good and impressive they might be , are still maintained by
by volunteers who besides their regular jobs ( perhaps at MS who knows)
, maintain and update the above described. Nothing wrong with that.
However very often i see some maintainer making apologies on the website
stating , haven't got the time, so this , that, isn't fixed,
I have installed and tested more than 30 linux kernels upto FreeBSD
and OpenBSD unixes.All had their pro's and cons.A pc with linux
installed on it isn't more secure than a raw xp box with sp2 on it.
In my opinion security strongly depends on the skills and willingness of
the end-user and the goal he/she has in mind.It allso depends on wether
you only surf the net and send an occasional e-mail to some friends
or you want to explore p2p , play online games, participate in forums,
rip some shoutcast stations , make your own dolby 5.1/7.1 dvd's (taking
some risk by using some obscure programs) and so on.
People who have sniffed around in the kitchen of the open source
community , know that its hard to implement for eg noexec memory pages ,
etc while still maintaining continuity and giving the end-user the
opportunity of using gui's isn't very trivial.It's to ordinaire giving
MS the blame alone, compatibillity has some benefits from alertness of
its maintainers allso.As a (private) desktop MS has besides Mac OsX no
real compettitors.The true power of linux, *BSD ,Open/Bought Source is
the total cost of ownership.No expensive licence fees alone that exeed
the cost of all hardware.OpenBSD can become a superb firewall on a i386
box , when installed and maintained by some skilled hands , and compete
with far more expensive hardware solutions.Adamantix a debian based
ultra secure linux , can make your server a tough nutt to crack.
Yet don't wine if you can't mux your wav's into ac3's on it.
I fully agree with some of the posters who said it all depends on the
purpose.
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