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On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:40 +0300, Dan Kaspi wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to convince somebody I know to move to Linux at home and > at work. I am myself an advocate user of Linux at work and at home. > > He works with a XP at work (a hightech company; however , he is > not a programmer) ,and also XP at home. > > When listing the main advantages of Linux , the most important one > I had thought of was security ; when you access the internet from a Linux > machine, chances that you get a virus or spyware or someone will intrude > your machine are smaller ; He answered that , when thinking in the long > term (2-3 years) , as more people will use linux as a desktop, > this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an open > source, > maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point > I did not know what to answer him. I am not a > security expert; it could be that he is right in this point. If you (or he), doesn't have problem with some reading material, the following article explains the design of the both systems, and why Windows is flawed from the very basic... http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/ -- shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --=-W1SDTauwu9aD0oKgCaEm Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.5"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:40 +0300, Dan Kaspi wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Hello,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> I tried to convince somebody I know to move to Linux at home and</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> at work. I am myself an advocate user of Linux at work and at home.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> He works with a XP at work (a hightech company; however , he is</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> not a programmer) ,and also XP at home.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> When listing the main advantages of Linux , the most important one</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I had thought of was security ; when you access the internet from a Linux</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">machine, chances that you get a virus or spyware or someone will intrude</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">your machine are smaller ; He answered that , when thinking in the long</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">term (2-3 years) , as more people will use linux as a desktop,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an open </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">source,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I did not know what to answer him. I am not a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">security expert; it could be that he is right in this point.</FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> If you (or he), doesn't have problem with some reading material, the following article explains the design of the both systems, and why Windows is flawed from the very basic... <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/";>http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/</A><BR> <BR> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- <BR> shimi <<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-W1SDTauwu9aD0oKgCaEm-- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
