Hello JohnO, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:22:47 AM, you wrote:
J> I don't really think it would be much better if a free *NIX OS and J> API owned a really significant part of the dewsktop computing J> world. The virus and worm developers would shift their target focus J> and produce malicious coding to make those users life difficult. I'm an Open Source kind of person, so I may be prejudiced, but I think Open Source code is a lot more secure than anything MS can produce, because any developer who wants to, can read the source code, and contribute their perspective to the debugging effort. That's a lot of very sharp people contributing expertise to the project, over an extended period of time. I have recently begun using FreeBSD 4.8 secure server, and it has been around for a while, and is a cracker's nightmare, if it is being run by a knowledgeable sysadmin... which I am *not*... yet.<g> fortunately, I have an excellent coaching staff, pointing the way... something that would cost thousands of dollars per year, with MSDN, and is essentially free, in the FreeBSD community. Funny thing is, I have no intention of turning off my Windows 98se box... it works great. In the next few months, I will hopefully have my entire rag-tag network of retro-boxes and operating systems fully networked together behind a gateway/router/firewall box... maybe an old 386 or something. Good fun. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
