On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:09, HaywireMac wrote: > "So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the > OS becomes more common and popular."
What truly boggles my mind is that so many people do not have an idea of the basis of the operating system from the onset. First and foremost, linux/unix/minix/posix/xenix are completely different animals from the MS-DOS/Windows/NT set of "operating systems". PC based OS's. That stands for "Personal Computer". PC. Single operator. Single. One. All of what M$ has done has been "fake" multitasking from the beginning. When we had to use Desqview under MSDOS - it was a matter of "time slicing" to give the appearance of multitasking - but was never really true multitasking. At least IBM had the right idea with the OS/2 model, but of course, marketing won out. Windows - no matter what version - no matter what flavour - does not truly multi-task - it cannot by inherent design. I CAN give you the IMPRESSION it's multitasking - but that's yet another reason why it requires so much hardware/RAM - to continue giving the appearance. Linux/unix/minix/posix/xenix - the idea behind was to create multiple tasks running concurrently from the beginning. Both born of different ideas and different worlds. Both have "built in" problems. At least in the linux/unix/posix/minix/xenix world they've had a lot longer to work out the bugs and holes - and the current bugs and holes BY NATURE cannot really allow for the same type of attacks that happen on a regular basis to Microsoft operating systems. Put bluntly, Microsoft is a wooden house. *NIX is a concrete bunker. Sure, they can both catch fire, but if you smoke inside the Microsoft house, you're bound to catch it alight. However, if you strew about large amounts of highly flammable liquid inside the concrete bunker and then set it alight from inside it's already locked and sealed doors, you'll cause it to burn with such high temperatures and the likes... ...erm...maybe that wasn't a great analogy, but y'all get the idea... stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent her interference, he placed a ureteral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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