[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Vista in the news

[Ron Youvan]

>> The only reason Linux appears to be secure is that no hacker would 
>> waste his, her or it's time to try to break into the 25 or 30 
>> computers running that particular version.

> careful making these kinds of statements.  There's a lot they share and 
> there are linux hacks.  It's just not that great a target right now.

> It will be a bigger target as time goes on and more people get sick of 
> the Redmond Menace.

   Completely wrong.
   Any file on a M$ machine is executable if it has one of 6 or 10 extension
names, some obscure.  dll, scr etc.

   On a *nix machine the virus must change an attribute in its own directory
entry to make itself executable, which is a tall order for a piece of code that is
not executable.  Unix worked this way before Gates got out of high school and by
making DOS easier to use he threw away most of the inherent security features
of UNIX.

   There are two compatible LINUX kernels (Torvalds and Cox) and the other
differences between LINUX distributions aren't worth spit, mostly how it
is installed and what is included, but almost everything can run on any
distribution, so those differences are temporary.
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    Ron  KA4INM - My Florida property tax is 7 times what it was
                  3 years ago with no change on my part. OUCH!