On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 02:04, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Dustin Puryear spewed into the ether: > > I don't think that's true anymore. More and more people are jumping on > > the Linux bandwagon the same way people jumped on the NT bandwagon. I > > definately feel that the average competence level for Linux > > administrators is going to decrease over time. > Thats why any system is only as good as its admin. > Prime benefits of Linux (or any Unix): > > Almost no viruses > Good separation of capabilities. You are not always root. Certainly you are not implying that Linux compartmentalizes user priviledges better than NT? And no, I am not including other UNIX systems that have the similar capabilities for segmenting access to different user subsets as does NT. This is very much a Linux issue. Of course, sudo changes things considerably, but I'm speaking merely on principle of the core OS design. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
