On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > What I *do* dispute is the statement that by: > > "....True, if you follow their suggestion to disable all services,..." > > You would be: > > "....throwing away a good deal of what makes Linux such a great OS....."
As a multi-user OS, Linux runs many "programs" under the client-server model... but I don't think you want to disable *all* services. > IMHO, > Linux is a great OS even without any of those services which might be > vulnerable to attack through the security holes in said services. > > But, that's just my opinion. ;-) I agree that Linux (the kernel) is a great OS. It's possible to run a system without *any* servers, but you can't run KDE without an X server. :-/ > Again... I am sorry for any confusion that I may have caused. No confusion here... nor do I see any reason to apologize. We each have our own perspectives, and expressing them is part of why we're here. - Steve
