UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth?

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 6, 2006 @05:07AM from the the-flame-war-begins dept.

OSNews has an interesting editorial about security on UNIX-like systems. "One of the biggest reasons for many people to switch to a UNIX desktop, away from Windows, is security. It is fairly common knowledge that UNIX-like systems are more secure than Windows. Whether this is true or not will not be up for debate in this short editorial; I will simply assume UNIX-like systems are more secure, for the sake of argument. However, how much is that increased security really worth for an average home user, when you break it down? According to me, fairly little"

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Gosh is this crappy - even by Slashdot standards by Qbertino · 2006-02-06 06:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Heavens crickey. Give me break.

Let me post a replacement article for this crap that isn't even worth debating:

Blender 2.41 is out. Very cool. Nice new features added to the game engine. Get it here -> www.blender.org

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