From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 12:42:52 MDT
--- Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@ckent.org> wrote:
> I have been running Mandrake 7 for over a year as my mail and web
> server. Not one lockup or crash (once I fixed a small problem with
> galloping log files...)
>
> I also have Win2000, which is NT made pretty. It needs a reboot about
> once a week, due to apps hanging it up. Also, for those imprudent
> enough to run
> MS servers and mail products, it has a slew of security holes, and it
> seems like new ones are found weekly.
>
> I've had several virus attacks on MS products that got past the virus
> scanner. Not one on Linux.
There are few viruses which have been written for linux. A
windows-aimed virus cannot attack linux or mac or BeOS, etc, nor can
the reverse occur.... yet.
>
> Note that I don't do everyday work on the Linux box - all my business
> and engineering apps unfortunately are Windows based, with no Linux
> equivalent. So, I have a biased view
If you do 99% of your work on one box, it will crash 100 times more
frequently than the other box, at the very least.
For four years, I did pretty heavy graphic and publishing work on an
NT4 box, while using the linux box for mail, ftp, and web serving.
Early frequent crashes on the NT box were due to a) an unstable
application suite (Corel Ventura 7), b) a publication 1800 pages long
that had been upgraded through 4 versions of Ventura and thus had lots
of corrupt code in it, and c) an underpowered machine for the size
publication I was working on. I eventually was able to clean things up
so that I could operate the NT machine for a month or more without
crashing, while doing even more work than I was able to do when I
started.
The amount of work the linux box did was rather trivial in comparison
yet still crashed a couple times a year, and was incapable of filtering
out email attached viruses targeted at MS operating systems. I know of
no linux application that can handle as large and complex a publication
as I did all the time with Ventura (unless Corel has ported Ventura to
linux by now).
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