From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: clever virus attack Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Probably wouldn't make a difference if you were using Windows on a Power >PC. >Most of the viruses are Intel specific, as well as Windows specific. >However you >could run BSD on a PC and be safe. Same OS as yours without the cutesy >stuff added. >BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X? I'd suggest that it has to do with Nextstep, which was the previous attempt to put Mac over unix. Apparently there are a lot of extensions to Unix underneath OSX prefaced with "ns". Linux is sort of a mismash of SysV and BSD unix, with more SysV in general, so it might not have worked as well for apple as pure BSD. It may also have to do with the fact that Linux is distributed under the GPL and copyright to Linus Torvalds, both of which may have been some legal issue somehow. Hearing people grumble about customizing OSes, I'm real happy with the unix philosophy of putting all configuration info in easily readable and editable text files. I also use my D1h and F4 on manual all the time. DJE
