I don't know what the hell your doing with windows.
Throwing it in a bin, and burning it.
I've been using it for years and I've never gotten any viruses. I've also used windows and installed them on other machines, I've never had a problem with Viruses. The only time I've seen people get Viruses/spyware is when they don't know what their doing and download something that had it attached.
I'm very happy for you, but you don't need to download anything to get a virus on windows.
There are Viruses for Linux, just not as many.
That's an understatement. Not only are there a googleplex times less, you never have to worry about them.
I've been using linux for months without any kind of security software, and had no problems.
With windows, I needed Zonealarm PRO, configured to insane settings, PC-Cillin, configured to insane settings, slowed down my system since it had to scan every file, since viruses could be anywhere, had to update both all the time, specifically the anti-virus, which is a real pain.
Linux? Nothing, don't have to do squat, just not applicable.
You know why? Because no one bothers to write viruses for linux
Yeh, because they wouldn't get anywhere. You can't just write a virus for linux. Where would it copy itself? How could it put itself on startup? How could it send itself to other machines?
It can't, because none of that and more is possible with linux, since it's so secure.
The reason why there are fewer viruses for linux, is because you can't get a virus to do much on a linux box, you just can't. Linux is too secure of an OS.
Using Linux as a webserver, I know there are holes in the Kernal and those holes have to exploited before, thats why there's patches all the time for the different versions of Linux being used as webservers.
All the time? No, that's windows, I can't remember the last kernel patch. Unlike windows, where you get like 100 updates every month. And that's the other thing, M$ doesn't release updates when they can, but only when they feel like it, which means there could be a fix for your problems, but they won't give it to you, because they don't feel like it.
The Kernal is not flawless(I've had trouble with it on webservers) and the permissions, like windows, can get you in trouble, if you don't know what your doing.
You'd have to be literally retarded to not know what you're doing. I could explain permissions to a child in 2 minutes....scratch that - 1 minute.
Star, I've been running windows for years now mostly without the firewall(although its always smart to have a firewall up) or anything else and I've never had a problem either.
I'm very happy for you.
Linux, like windows, has its share of problems, its not flawless and its not God's modern-day gift to humans. For webservers I prefer Linux because I'm used to the LAMP setup, although ASP.NET is attractive so I do have a shared windows account.
ASP is utter crap and slow as anything. PHP is heaps faster.
And trying to compare windows problems to linux problems will get you nowhere.
For every 1000 problems with windows, there is 1 for linux.
In a recent study by PC magazine, it was found that Linux had just as many security flaws as windows while reporting that MAC OSX and FreeBSD were significantly safer than Linux or Windows.
That's because Microsoft paid them to write that.
By the ways MSSQL is a little better than MYSQL, but most big companies usually use Oracle. MSSQL has a few handy function that MY doesn't. For my purposes right now though, the two are identical.
MSSQL is nowhere near MySQL, MySQL 5.1, is as good as Oracle 9i, and nothing comes even close to that, except Oracle 10i.
Haha, that's funny you know. Last time I installed linux on my computer I had to install a windows driver wrapper to make my wireless card work with it. And then wrestle for hours to configure the damn thing.
I assume people won't use crappy wireless stuff. If you want to you install a driver...no big deal, windows does it too, some distros don't require you to, SuSE does it automatically from memory, if you have the wireless-tools package installed, which is a 10 second thing to do, YaST does everything, including configuration.
1. - I think you'd better research that one a bit more.
You do, since you disagree with the truth.
2. My first linux desktop went south as X wouldn't recognise a basic gfx card, had to manually set everything and even then it bailed on login.
In the past, windows didn't even recognise USB devices automatically...what a ----ty thing. Now what's your point?
3. 'star' your doing a great job of looking a complete plank! Much better than linux could have did it....................
Keep up the insults, just shows how scared and insecure you feel.
.....why do you people know nothing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
Installing ubuntu in VMWare, doesn't look bad considering it's free. Don't think I'd switch from Vista for it though.
You should, Vista is the most insecure OS ever.
Vista's kernel has already been hacked, anyone can place a rootkit on your comp, and you would never be able to find out:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2042641,00.asp
Also starcraft you should also know what you're talking about before you say it.
I do, nobody even uses asp anymore, all of the requests I see are for aspx. When I'm talking about ASP, assume it's ASP.NET, I never have anything to say about ASP, k?
Stop being a microsoft basher and get on with your life.
Ummm....that
is my life, ok?
Well i used linux ( edubantu ) it is nice as said its free , but win and macos are better coz they are premium!
Yeh, a premium
VIRUS & CRAP MAGNET
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