I could knit-pick your grammar, but is this overall claim based in empirical research? Linux certainly has it's flaws and while it's not susceptible to WINDOWS malware, it certainly is to a variety of others. Perhaps take a look at http://insecure.org/ or http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/. Both of these sites maintain lists of exploits to various version of Linux and many other types of GNU software as well. Rootkits most generally fall into the realm of 'malware' and once you've got root, baby, you've got the world.
Your provider likely runs an rbl check at the smtp server level which is not always the same scanning mechanism - rbl's are continually updated and can be far more accurate at blocking spam if a host or set of hosts are blocked - it can very much seem like a sudden turn around in the amount of email you're getting because known spam sources are eventually blacklisted. So while your isp may not have actually changed anything at their server level the 3rd party rbl filters (spamcop, spamhaus, etc) are continually updating their own lists which directly affect your email.h
Working in webhosting support I get many clients who run RHEL on their server simply because it was provided as a choice by the datacenter where they lease their server(s). There is no price difference between the OS's they choose from during their server sign-up; so it's plausible that they could choose any one of several OS's which may or may not free to the general public. The RHEL boxes commonly are registered via a satellite service that is provided by the datacenter themselves and the user never has to pay for this part separately. It seems that this type of free provisioning of the OS would do the same amount of damage as a clone like CentOS.
Ah, it's nice to know that I'm not the only person that is left in the world who recently learned COBOL. I had to take it in high school (about 4 years ago).
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I could knit-pick your grammar, but is this overall claim based in empirical research? Linux certainly has it's flaws and while it's not susceptible to WINDOWS malware, it certainly is to a variety of others. Perhaps take a look at http://insecure.org/ or http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/. Both of these sites maintain lists of exploits to various version of Linux and many other types of GNU software as well. Rootkits most generally fall into the realm of 'malware' and once you've got root, baby, you've got the world.
Did Fox News publish this story? Why the hype? `sudo apt-get install gimp*`
Your provider likely runs an rbl check at the smtp server level which is not always the same scanning mechanism - rbl's are continually updated and can be far more accurate at blocking spam if a host or set of hosts are blocked - it can very much seem like a sudden turn around in the amount of email you're getting because known spam sources are eventually blacklisted. So while your isp may not have actually changed anything at their server level the 3rd party rbl filters (spamcop, spamhaus, etc) are continually updating their own lists which directly affect your email.h
Working in webhosting support I get many clients who run RHEL on their server simply because it was provided as a choice by the datacenter where they lease their server(s). There is no price difference between the OS's they choose from during their server sign-up; so it's plausible that they could choose any one of several OS's which may or may not free to the general public. The RHEL boxes commonly are registered via a satellite service that is provided by the datacenter themselves and the user never has to pay for this part separately. It seems that this type of free provisioning of the OS would do the same amount of damage as a clone like CentOS.
it won't share it as c$ if you manually share it as something else...for example 'c'
"Linux training costs were 15% higher on average"
Well that's because training to fix windows is "just hit reset"
Ah, it's nice to know that I'm not the only person that is left in the world who recently learned COBOL. I had to take it in high school (about 4 years ago).