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Jan 31, 2010 3:17 PM
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Uttered when Linux users are either ignorant or plainly dishonest about the amount of freeware – even FOSS – available on Windows, in an attempt to make it seem far more costly than it truly is. They’ll assume you need to buy an Antivirus suite when freeware ones exist. Or they selectively forget that a lot of their pet products – office suites like Openoffice.org or graphic apps like Gimp – have Windows ports too.
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Don’t forget FOSS darling Firefox was made for Windows first!
Hmmm… something appearing on Windows first and then Linux following? Sounds familiar…
An operating system shouldn’t need Antivirus software in the first place, regardless of the price.
@ThomasB
An operating system should be standardized and deployable too, regardless of price. An operating system also shouldn’t have to be reinstalled every 6 months when it breaks after updates. waits to be told how distro-x is better
Oops! That put Linux in a double-bind, especially with Apple around (which doesn’t require antivirus but which you don’t seem to evangelize 'cuz it’s not FOSS) and especially with Linux fans touting qualities of the operating system that Linux simply doesn’t live up to.
@Thomas B.
You still think linux is secure don’t you?
Wireless not working? Just run this little script I made, no it doesn’t need root it’s safe! Just remember to download this package before:
sudo apt-get install something.
Oh and I heard there’s some really cool new screensavers on gnome-look.
Linux is damn secure: http://www.vupen.com/english/linux-advisories/
@Administrator: Firefox has always been cross-platform, even stemming back to the days of the Mozilla browser’s pre-1.0 days, when it was available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS and Solaris.
@Delano:
Damn that security!
We don’t need no stinkin’ overflows!
Also interesting to note that the original internet worm, by Robert Morris (now a well-rewarded partner of Paul Graham), was targeted at, er, sendmail.
Windows is famous for its sendmail dependency.
Unix is famous for having got over that tiny little problem.
Linux probably isn’t even grown-up enough to understand what sendmail does. I know I’ve tried. The concept of mailing a report out from a Linux system is, I submit, a quite useful step forward.
As far as I can see, Loonix Admins will deny you this possibility simply because Robert Morris scared the sharglebarglet out of them with a virus.
All those years ago. It’s quite cure, really. Pixar will probably make a movie out of it.
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