Linux Desktop Myths Examined

Call Me Black Cloud writes "NewsFactor Network has an overview of the $95.00 Gartner report titled, "Myths of Linux on the Desktop". It's a good look at several points from the perspective of a corporate user, not a home user."

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Re:Some FUD, not all

[afidel]

Actually as of Windows Server 2003 and IIS5 IIS can (and does as default on 2003) run as an unprivilidged account. Also no executable addons are enabled by default (in fact IIS isn't even installed by default, what a nice change!). It may take time but MS is moving towards more sane defaults. In fact the other great evil in the MS world, Outlook has sane defaults with Outlook XP. It will take time before the installed base moves to these newer offerings but that can hardly be blamed on MS. Redhat for years took deserved flak for shipping with tons of services enabled that very few users needed, they finally wised up but it took a long time and a lot of customer concern to reach that goal. And finally ACL's are FAR superior to tradition style Unix permissions for locking down the box, if you want to go command line in windows use the resource kit, they have security auditing tools and command line ACL viewers.