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Quote:Mac? Open source? Really?
Linux? Yeah.
Like Oracle said. Precisely. And if they're open source, and someone can gain exploit information from it, it could be bye-bye to all the servers that use Windows NT/2000.
Hehe, Linux has been always open source but the servers that run off it are extremely secure. Where as the Windows source code has been heavily guarded my M$ but they havent been able to secure their own machines. I wonder why 8)
Quote:And whoever is using NT or 2k as a webserver should be taken out and beaten.
Rhia, you have really strong opinions :rotfl: :rotfl:
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i'm a headstrong woman. I say what i mean.
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Fine fine. But why are you against people using 2K or NT as webservers?
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uhh.....let's see now.....more suspectable to exploits, virus infections, intrusions, all reasons for me to run when i see a windows server. And after being on IRC and seeing thousands upon thousands of bots used for warez and DDOS attacks, I really dont want to have precious info at the disposition of someone that can hack into the machine with a rootkit.
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Couldnt have worded it better myself =). So are you just anti NT/2K or pro Linux as well?
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Nix on my servers, and windows on my desktop till i find a better one.
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For desktop, windows R |_| |_ 3 Z
For server, Linux.
But recently I've come across Lycoris. Its latest version is looking very promising. I havent used it though. But I want to try it. Currenly, I am using a Linux desktop =) and its cool.
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I get along fine with KDE 3.1.5 (I also whacked 256MB more mem in my box). I can't print, but if I could I would be churning out documents with AbiWord. If I can, I do web development in quanta, and browse with firebird, learn java, upload with gFTP, play Dungeons with telnet... all for free, and very secure. In fact, the only reason I boot into windows these days is to prog in QB or test programs people have uploaded to QBNZ.
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For me, Linux on the desktop ended up being just that..."cool". Gnome 2 looked great.
But after the "cool" wore off, I was stuck with a subpar OS with very little application support, and virtually NO support for hardcore BASIC programmers. I switched to KDE for a faster desktop, since Gnome was SO bloody slow. But after about a week of fighting with even the simplest of applications, I came to realize that it just wasn't the OS for an "instant gratification" kind of computer user like myself. So, I backed up some files (had to switch CDRW drives, because the one I was using at the time wasn't recognized....another tremendous annoyance) and reinstalled Windows. Never looked back either.
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.
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Nek, so you had a bad experience. Its ok. But once you get the hang of it, its a piece of cake =).
Oracle, why cant you print? Linux has so many print services. IMO CUPS is the best and the simplest. I would prefer star office over abiword. Also, I've noticed that M$ puts too many features in their apps. For example I use hardly 5% of the features in microsoft word =(.
