Surya Pratap wrote: > Rony wrote: > >> Windows is quite a PITA to maintain especially with viruses and its >> affinity for corrupting the file system, >> > Windows has as many viruses because of its popularity, > security, no matter the OS is actually up to the user, > think of, what a nasty program can accomplish if it is given root access > in linux. > Linux, Unix and Mac OS-X confirm to POSIX standards and that is what makes them safer in multi-user environments. Windows does not. It only complies, which is much different from confirming. You could look up POSIX in google and you will find some interesting information.
> The way I see it, Windows OS is not that bad, the bad part is the > restrictions > that a user/developer is forced go through because of the licensing issues. > > Licensing is just one part of the problem. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
