As far as crashing goes, well OS X has been **fairly stable, though not bullet proof. OS 9 on the other hand was a joke in terms of stability...
Trying to interface to MS windows networks from OS X does sometimes hang the system (maybe just aqua, but there doesn't seem to be alt+F6 type of runlevel switching that I love about my linux box, so sometimes only a reboot seems to help) I have a Linux firewall with an assortment of computers accessing the internet through it, which includes one Mac with OSX loaded. So far it's held off any intrusions, though I haven't had the wonderful luck of receiving a mac virus, yet! Maybe you should also discourage your users from using peer to peer systems cause of their reputation for undermining security... Oh yeah, my two cents on OSX is that it wastes too much resources being pretty. I like lean mean computing machines (yeah blackbox!). Stupid fashionable GUIs! mutter mutter... Cheers, Jasper <-J.L.E Streit-> -----Original Message----- From: Voytek Eymont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open Every so often, I have seen a number of Q here regarding Apple Mac hardware, hence, I'm assuming there are some Mac hardware users here, are there any Mac OS users though ? Reading through a Mac book I picked up today (of all places, at everythinglinux) I now know that Mac OS is *nix based. But, all in all, I know rather little about Macs what is the situation with Macs and so-called virii and worms, does anyone has real-life experience that can point me in the right direction ? I'll need to look after some Macs that will be ADSL connected to Internet soon, and, need to research it somewhat, so, I do not appear a total dummy (partial dummy is OK) I have a Mac user (unrelated to above scenario) who told me: Mac are wonderfull, I don't need any anti virus, I don't have crashes, we are so blissed we run only Macs I suspect the above-mentioned Mac user may well have a competent person looking after her Macs, hence, her bliss(full ignorance) Symantec are happy to sell me Mac anti virus, but, they are equally happy to sell me OS/2 anti virus. any good Mac mail lists or sigs anyone knows ? I'm guessing Mac with MS stuff like Office and especially Outbreak would be prone to some of the MS malware there is ? anyhow, any advice appreciated, apologise for this far off topic, perhaps replies might be directed directly to me if that is too far off here Voytek Eymont Checked for Virus's by Asoft Email Scan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
