Disagree. I've run a few Gentoo boxes and the latest was done Reiserf based on the install recommendations. It's a K7 1333 with 3/7 gig of RAM, and intense 7500 RPM ATA 100 disk reads - say Rox updating picture thumbnails - causes the cursor to hang and jump, CPU pegged at 100%. My P2 366 with 4200 RPM drive and 192 meg of RAM doesn't have this problem formatted XFS. Know I know why.
Next step is to download the XFS kernal sources and see how I can dump this pig of an FS.
But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch. Multiply that by a million users. Now you have millions of machines out there running a rootable linux box.
Sigh. Yes, all those Joe-Six-Pack users who initialize SSHD, edit/etc/.../sshd.conf to allow root logins, and ignore patches stand the chance of a random portscanner finding them. This is to 'I Love You' what a windshield bugsplat is to getting tagged by a Freightliner at high speed. Both, in theory, can be considered impacts, but there's plenty of quibble-space over the severity.
You're confusing attachments and executables. It's the hidden executables embedded in attachments which cause the damage.
Yes, if Linux _in its current form_ was as common as Windows, it would be be much more secure. But we might as well wish for green eggs & ham...
At home, not at work. My XP work environment is already screwed down tighter than a Gentoo box. Once businesses become accustomed to the lack of end user convenience forced on them by these virus attacks, the less convenience becomes an objection to the adoption of Linux.
Then your friend shouldn't be running a Web server. Apache is easily patched and restarted without bringing down the box. Mandrake, Redhat and Webmin provide GUIs for the task, '/etc/init.d/*** restart' or '/etc/rc.d/init.d/*** restart' works on many distros for those not terrified of the CLI.
BTW, I'm guessing Apache, which isn't Linux, fell prey to an attack by an individual instead of an automated virus. Apples and Oranges/Oranges.
Outlook Express is easily uninstalled in 2k. It's part of our regular install routine. Add-Remove Programs and pick the left most bottom icon. Simple as pie. Thanks DOJ!
Care to provide an example? I certainly can't think of a Linux mail client which has the capacity to sudo, nor do I know of any distros which tack on the capability. Which do you mean?;)
TFA cites small to medium sized businesses, intimate knowledge of two large corporations is irrelevant. On the other hand, I have intimate knowledge of two support firms for my company, small to medium sized, converting to OO because of MS' licensing costs. Our core application, a multimedia one at that, just released a Linux port set on equal footing to the established Windows version.
Prepare to see more businesses running pirated or antiquated versions of a MS OS and faced with hardware upgrades converting to free alternatives.
No, I think the plan here is what has already been mentioned many times: If SCO can get all of the major Linux players offering indemnification then they can really cramp the growth and development of the operating system.
Which once again raises the question, how does any of this support the notion that SCO intends to make money from Linux should they win? They're actively and intentionally destroying it. Are they just insane, or are there hidden motive behind these acts?
Startup is not slow! Startup is damn fast on my K7 1333, faster than Word on my work P4 1.7. The Linux version is just as quick on the home hardware. Both are pre-compiled binaries directly from the site. Startup time is no longer an issue in the way of OO's acceptance.
I think these responses all miss the obvious reason, protecting themselves from the software company. Studios make enormous investments in sytems and product. They need alternative avenues for support and development should the original supplier no longer be there for them for any reason: bankruptcy, cost, end-of-product life, whatever. Source code in hand means they can always keep going.
Remember who supported these fascist laws when you vote.
Good luck, the previous administration did just as much damage under the 'War on Drugs' guise. One could say the Patriot Act stands on its predecessor's shoulders.
I have a 2x120 gig Maxtor mirror on an Abit KT7 as a server. It's unbelievable fast serving NFS shares, movies and videos Start Right Now when accessed across the network from a second Gentroo box. It's so fast I used to check the server for drive activity, thinking the media may have been on a local cache. It's running on the standard 2.4.x kernel modules as a Linux RAID.
Prior to that W2k was installed on my second Abit, a KT7A, on a HP stripe. The Gentoo second boot never spawned errors reading from the stripe, though writing was off limits of course.
Are you running the very latest Abit MB+HP BIOS? That board was a pig until they straightened this out.
While I agree Apache shouldn't be equated with Linux, it took me less than an hout to set up my first Apache box with Mandrake 9.1, including the OS install. The Webmin Apache module provides more configuration options than this noob knows what to do with in a clearly laid out Web interface.
...abandon the simplicity and stability of Win2K....
Obvious troll.
.....IIS is feature bloated hacker friendly piece of garbage... that has nothing to do with Windows...
Other than the tight integration with the OS and they both come from Redmond I suppose.
We use plenty of 2K servers at work and, the non-stop critical patching excepted, haven't had a problem with them for two years, so I'm not a 2000 hater. At home it's Gentoo boxes. I know them both and you are wrong.
If Windows can't do it alone, our IT department has a magic bag of software tools that'll finish the job. Maybe McAffee with double-dare mega hueristics wicked up full blast.
First, it was a billion dollars, not 'millions'. Second, you put the cart before the horse. They invested this money in the belief that GPL is a viable business strategy. You make it sound as if the board of directors woke up one morning only to realize they'd unwittingly spend a billion on GPL product and were scrambling to justify the error.
But that's the important part. IBM, being on the side of IBM as you put it, thinks the GPL is good business. The profits appear to indicate it's a correct analysis. This is a potential revolution in the making.
Businesses will always be organizations driven by self-interest, or they'll cease being businesses. Seeing this overwhelming self-interest driven to ultimate sharing as a viable strategy is amazing.
Bottom line is that you're preventing people from making money the way they are choosing to make it by taking their service but not paying for it.
Music is a service now and not (intellectual) 'property'? Not many in the RIAA would agree, and your analogy doesn't work using property either since music isn't a transferrable physical entity like a Star Wars action figure.
How about this isntead? RIAA members choose to distribute product in an easily copyable and distributable form (binary), and then buy legislation demanding obscene penalties affecting all information transfer to preserve a poor and outdated business model. That's wrong, and you know it, no matter how much you choose to justify it.
Crime and disease mean work too, but with all deference to the skill and dedication of the professions involved the world would be better off without them.
If they only patch once per month or quarter, the original poster is indeed smarter than them. This isn't yer mom's chat machine, this is an infrastructure critical to the State Department's operation. A worm took them out so they weren't vigilant or 'smart enough' by definition.
Congratulations, you win the MS/Godwin award for the first spurious comparison between an arcane, difficult OpenSSH exploit requiring manual application on a per-computer basis and detailed expertise, and a Windows plug-it-in-and-watch-it-die automatic worm vulnerability. I knew someone would rush to claim equivalency between such radically different apples and oranges but am surprised it's getting modded inside of a dozen first posts.
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Given Nietzche's military style of writing, kill -HUP makes morre sense. :)
Next step is to download the XFS kernal sources and see how I can dump this pig of an FS.
Sorry, didn't have a box in front of my. Look for "Add Remove Windows Components".
Sigh. Yes, all those Joe-Six-Pack users who initialize SSHD, edit /etc/.../sshd.conf to allow root logins, and ignore patches stand the chance of a random portscanner finding them. This is to 'I Love You' what a windshield bugsplat is to getting tagged by a Freightliner at high speed. Both, in theory, can be considered impacts, but there's plenty of quibble-space over the severity.
Yes, if Linux _in its current form_ was as common as Windows, it would be be much more secure. But we might as well wish for green eggs & ham ...
At home, not at work. My XP work environment is already screwed down tighter than a Gentoo box. Once businesses become accustomed to the lack of end user convenience forced on them by these virus attacks, the less convenience becomes an objection to the adoption of Linux.
BTW, I'm guessing Apache, which isn't Linux, fell prey to an attack by an individual instead of an automated virus. Apples and Oranges/Oranges.
Outlook Express is easily uninstalled in 2k. It's part of our regular install routine. Add-Remove Programs and pick the left most bottom icon. Simple as pie. Thanks DOJ!
Care to provide an example? I certainly can't think of a Linux mail client which has the capacity to sudo, nor do I know of any distros which tack on the capability. Which do you mean? ;)
The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said.
Like non-DRM CDROM and DVD drives, or non-'Microsoft certified' devices? What a 'promising' future!
Prepare to see more businesses running pirated or antiquated versions of a MS OS and faced with hardware upgrades converting to free alternatives.
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Help, I'm confused!!
Which once again raises the question, how does any of this support the notion that SCO intends to make money from Linux should they win? They're actively and intentionally destroying it. Are they just insane, or are there hidden motive behind these acts?
Startup is not slow! Startup is damn fast on my K7 1333, faster than Word on my work P4 1.7. The Linux version is just as quick on the home hardware. Both are pre-compiled binaries directly from the site. Startup time is no longer an issue in the way of OO's acceptance.
I think these responses all miss the obvious reason, protecting themselves from the software company. Studios make enormous investments in sytems and product. They need alternative avenues for support and development should the original supplier no longer be there for them for any reason: bankruptcy, cost, end-of-product life, whatever. Source code in hand means they can always keep going.
Good luck, the previous administration did just as much damage under the 'War on Drugs' guise. One could say the Patriot Act stands on its predecessor's shoulders.
Who ya gonna vote for next!? (Ghostbusters!!)
Prior to that W2k was installed on my second Abit, a KT7A, on a HP stripe. The Gentoo second boot never spawned errors reading from the stripe, though writing was off limits of course.
Are you running the very latest Abit MB+HP BIOS? That board was a pig until they straightened this out.
Obvious troll.
Other than the tight integration with the OS and they both come from Redmond I suppose.
We use plenty of 2K servers at work and, the non-stop critical patching excepted, haven't had a problem with them for two years, so I'm not a 2000 hater. At home it's Gentoo boxes. I know them both and you are wrong.
If you can find room to rest a kettle on the die, yes.
If Windows can't do it alone, our IT department has a magic bag of software tools that'll finish the job. Maybe McAffee with double-dare mega hueristics wicked up full blast.
First, it was a billion dollars, not 'millions'. Second, you put the cart before the horse. They invested this money in the belief that GPL is a viable business strategy. You make it sound as if the board of directors woke up one morning only to realize they'd unwittingly spend a billion on GPL product and were scrambling to justify the error.
Businesses will always be organizations driven by self-interest, or they'll cease being businesses. Seeing this overwhelming self-interest driven to ultimate sharing as a viable strategy is amazing.
Music is a service now and not (intellectual) 'property'? Not many in the RIAA would agree, and your analogy doesn't work using property either since music isn't a transferrable physical entity like a Star Wars action figure.
How about this isntead? RIAA members choose to distribute product in an easily copyable and distributable form (binary), and then buy legislation demanding obscene penalties affecting all information transfer to preserve a poor and outdated business model. That's wrong, and you know it, no matter how much you choose to justify it.
Crime and disease mean work too, but with all deference to the skill and dedication of the professions involved the world would be better off without them.
If they only patch once per month or quarter, the original poster is indeed smarter than them. This isn't yer mom's chat machine, this is an infrastructure critical to the State Department's operation. A worm took them out so they weren't vigilant or 'smart enough' by definition.
Congratulations, you win the MS/Godwin award for the first spurious comparison between an arcane, difficult OpenSSH exploit requiring manual application on a per-computer basis and detailed expertise, and a Windows plug-it-in-and-watch-it-die automatic worm vulnerability. I knew someone would rush to claim equivalency between such radically different apples and oranges but am surprised it's getting modded inside of a dozen first posts.