On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:05:45PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:18:49AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > > I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. > > > > For the simple people, let us look at the facts: > > > > 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in > > his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the answer is never)
Actually you should compare Linux here to Mac, due to a more similar market share. > Just to prove my point - everyone here will agree that putting a default > install of most major distros open in the net without some kind of > firewall or hardening will very quickly make it broken into (I know > about exceptions, no need to remind me). The default installation of most major distros (not Debian, though) does include a firewall and does remove most unnecessary services. Has been in the recent two years or so. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
