On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:44:45 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following:
> Plus - it's obvious that better and easier software installation is > needed for Linux to become more newbie-friendly. And that will also > make it easier for malicious scripts to be run. ...okay, lets follow that logic, shall we? Mandrake is one of the easiest to install of the Linux distros. Is it the least secure? Nope. A four-year-old could use Xandros, is it less secure than any other distro? Suse? Red Hat? I think we can safely heave that one into the bin. MS chose a certain path in seeking what they call 'ease of use', that is they integrated every piece of software that comes bundled in the OS with the core, gave the default user full admin rights, and then to top it all off, they broke perfectly secure standards and practices in favour of a bloated, insecure architecture (HTML mail?! Activex?! A freaking mail client and web browser that allow scripts to be run locally without the user's knowledge?!) GNU/Linux would have to literally blow it's brains out and reengineer the OS to ever even come close to the vulnerability Windows, and vice versa. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded; Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed; Everybody knows that the war is over; Everybody knows the good guys lost; Everybody knows the fight was fixed; The poor stay poor, the rich get rich; That's how it goes; Everybody knows" -- Leonard Cohen, 'Everybody Knows'
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