> I for one consider linux to be a LOT better that Windows.
Well, IMHO, they both suck. In some areas Linux sucks less, while in other Windows sucks less. But they both have their quirks and its just a matter of working around them. And *that* is the mark of somebody who really knows his/her shit.
> With ACLs, not only do I have to check whether >/etc/passwd is owned by root, I also have to check > whether someone has snuck in and given themselves > write access to it through ACLs.
In Linux this is easy enough to check because if a file has a non-trivial ACL, GNU's ls(1) will display a "+" sign along with the other permission bits when you do a `ls -l'.
The computer engineering program at my school, UMBC, is exactly the same as the computer science program except you are required to take additional courses which would otherwise count as elective credit if you took CS (stuff like more physics and an electrical engineering course).
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> MySQL provides the right combination of features,
> stability and price to compete really well in that
> arena.
But so does PostgreSQL which has the added benefit of being a real RDBMS instead of being an SQL front-end to your data.
So Adobe requires that you pay a licensing fee for PS but not for PDF?
> Can you run postgres in windows? no
Actually, yes.
> Can you run the linux XFree86 binaries on windows? no.
Thats true, but why would you want to?
> I for one consider linux to be a LOT better that Windows.
Well, IMHO, they both suck. In some areas Linux sucks less, while in other Windows sucks less. But they both have their quirks and its just a matter of working around them. And *that* is the mark of somebody who really knows his/her shit.
> the first thing I'll learn is how to turn tarballs .debs, then use those .debs to install the
> into
> software.
Check out CheckInstall on how to easily make debs/rpms/slackware tgz's from source packages.
> With ACLs, not only do I have to check whether /etc/passwd is owned by root, I also have to check
>
> whether someone has snuck in and given themselves
> write access to it through ACLs.
In Linux this is easy enough to check because if a file has a non-trivial ACL, GNU's ls(1) will display a "+" sign along with the other permission bits when you do a `ls -l'.
If a file has an extended ACL, GNU's ls(1) would display a "+" sign along with the other file permission bits when you do an `ls -l'.
The computer engineering program at my school, UMBC, is exactly the same as the computer science program except you are required to take additional courses which would otherwise count as elective credit if you took CS (stuff like more physics and an electrical engineering course).