On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:48:53PM -0800, Paul Mullen wrote:
> >NT is the operating system of choice for most Internet servers.
As you suspected, this is completely wrong. Unix/Linux dominates the
Internet, which is no surprise, since all significant Internet technology
was invented and developed on those platforms.
> I guess I'm in need of a little education here. I thought UNIX (and its
> variants) was the OS of choice for Internet servers.
Yes. Always has been, and the hype over NT has only snared people
stupid enough to use Microsoft products. (Happily for Microsoft, there
are a *lot* of stupid people. But the less dense ones are starting to
figure out that NT is garbage.)
> And viruses being a predominantly UNIX phenomenon?
Viruses are not predominantly a UNIX phenomenon. There are several
thousand known viruses for the DOS/Windows/NT OS family, and only
a few for the Unix/Linux world. (I'm using "virus" in the strict
sense, i.e. this does not include worms, trojan horses, and other
forms of "malware".)
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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