From: Max (reply.to.newsgroup@mozilla.org)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 07:33:56 EDT
Well said. I agree completely.
-- M@x Jophn Deo wrote: > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Check out our Advanced Hacking course, learn to write exploits and attack security infrastructure. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/InfoSecInstitute_pen-test_040817 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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