OS Comparisons From the BBC

igb writes "As part of their coverage of the launch of Vista, the BBC last week asked people to submit descriptions of the benefits and drawbacks of their chosen system, and today they've posted responses from two Vista users, a Linux user, and an OS X user. There's nothing earth-shattering here, but it's interesting to see the operating systems compared on a level playing field, and good that the BBC has given equal time to the major alternatives."

Comments

Oh yeah?

[nexu56]

the desktop can be restored by restarting Beryl (try restarting just the windows manager on Windows - you can't)

• Ctrl-Alt-Delete -> Task Manager
• Select explorer.exe process, click End Process
• Click File -> Run
• Type "explorer.exe" and click OK

Re:The virus argument

[Technician]

This argument about viruses has absolutely no basis since if an OS is not widely used, it simply isn't an attractive commercial target for virus/adware writers.

You develop software. You have run freeBSD and Windows. Why don't you understand the difficulty of getting code to run on each platform.

On one, all you need is a Website, and Email with an attachment, or a Document and very little if any social engineering.

On the other, you need physical access, or a realy good social engineering attack to get a user to change an attachment into an executible file with the privilages to install software.

Pick one.

Windows has zero day attacks that spread like wildfire blown by hot dry winds. Other platforms sometimes gets a slow crawl as a social engineering attack makes some penetration.

Some insecure applications have been used for a *NIX attack such as Samba and Firefox, but not all machines come with these installed by default like the insecure IE and Outlook Express.