That's not technical problems with the OS. That's bad security defaults used by the distribution (too bad there is no Debian for the NT kernel). Because of those security defaults, every minor bug becomes a security issue, hence frequent patches...
You know, I've always been wondering about that. I mean, the NT kernel is based on VMS, reputed to be one of the most secure operating systems ever. According to every theory of operating systems, microkernels and message passing should be more secure and more reliable (and much more elegant) than monolithic kernels. The designer of Minix (Tanenbaum, I believe) said Linus would have flunked his OS class.
Instead, the NT series turned out to be fairly insecure, fragile, bloated monstrosities. Why did Microsoft botch it so badly? Win32 compatibility? Performance hacks? Marketing issues? "Ease of use"?
(Note: I am not claiming that the Win9x series were good general purpose OS's in any way. However, they made damn good single-user gaming boxes)
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That's not technical problems with the OS. That's bad security defaults used by the distribution (too bad there is no Debian for the NT kernel). Because of those security defaults, every minor bug becomes a security issue, hence frequent patches...
You know, I've always been wondering about that. I mean, the NT kernel is based on VMS, reputed to be one of the most secure operating systems ever. According to every theory of operating systems, microkernels and message passing should be more secure and more reliable (and much more elegant) than monolithic kernels. The designer of Minix (Tanenbaum, I believe) said Linus would have flunked his OS class.
Instead, the NT series turned out to be fairly insecure, fragile, bloated monstrosities. Why did Microsoft botch it so badly? Win32 compatibility? Performance hacks? Marketing issues? "Ease of use"?
(Note: I am not claiming that the Win9x series were good general purpose OS's in any way. However, they made damn good single-user gaming boxes)