The problem is Linux gets too much attention from the mass-media. My H'friends joke about me being the only one who uses FreeBSD. It's really hard to make someone feel, apreciate the "clean" feeling of FreeBSD, being built as _one_ project. That is why the dox are that good too. But for a newbie, who DOESN'T want to be a hacker, but only to understand the implications of "everyinthing is a file" (although he doesn't know it yet) and _maybe_ do some programming using sockets Linux is not much different from FreeBSD. Besides, the problems which arise with making a Linux box work smoothly get one to RTFM.
So FreeBSD is a good choice but not the best for newbies.
In order for a virus to "pick up new tricks from another more harmful virus" they have to be in the same cell at the same time before the cell successfully multiplies. So the viruses must be of the same type (modify gene code during mitose or modify the same other part of the cell other than the nucleus) and they must be present in huge numbers for that to happen (statistical reasons, ex flu) and well since you're already densely infested with this more harmful than ebola or hiv (of which by the way, only the code delivering part is kept because it's cheaper and faster to cultivate ebola than construct the carrier part which it's already compatible with the receptors of the targeted cell you want to modify) don't worry, you're dead.
What do you _actually_ do in that lab, dear - backups, dishes?
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The problem is Linux gets too much attention from the mass-media. My H'friends joke about me being the only one who uses FreeBSD. It's really hard to make someone feel, apreciate the "clean" feeling of FreeBSD, being built as _one_ project. That is why the dox are that good too. But for a newbie, who DOESN'T want to be a hacker, but only to understand the implications of "everyinthing is a file" (although he doesn't know it yet) and _maybe_ do some programming using sockets Linux is not much different from FreeBSD. Besides, the problems which arise with making a Linux box work smoothly get one to RTFM.
So FreeBSD is a good choice but not the best for newbies.
In order for a virus to "pick up new tricks from another more harmful virus" they have to be in the same cell at the same time before the cell successfully multiplies. So the viruses must be of the same type (modify gene code during mitose or modify the same other part of the cell other than the nucleus) and they must be present in huge numbers for that to happen (statistical reasons, ex flu) and well since you're already densely infested with this more harmful than ebola or hiv (of which by the way, only the code delivering part is kept because it's cheaper and faster to cultivate ebola than construct the carrier part which it's already compatible with the receptors of the targeted cell you want to modify) don't worry, you're dead.
What do you _actually_ do in that lab, dear - backups, dishes?