Sorry Art
More guffawing, most Linux people desperately try to hide the stuff ups.
I
even know people that say that Linux machines don't crash :-) and I well
remember one MV reseller as promoting Unix because it did not have viruses
:-) Given that the most catastrophic worms where Unix based, that was a
beauty.
Peter McMurray
"art" <artmartz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Tony Gravagno wrote:
>> art wrote:
>>> You can say Microsoft and security in the same sentence, and keep a
>>> straight face??
>>
>> Hey, I'm laughin... I've provided a list below of just security
>> advisories for Linux - note these are not fixes for functionality
>> issues. And Art, yes, you're Ubuntu is in there with the rest of
>> them. snip
>> failings, and vulnerabilities. People that come up with these
>> hit-n-run guffaws about keeping a straight face need to be a little
>> more careful about pointing fingers at incompetence because there's
>> plenty of it on all sides.
>>
>> Just tryin to keep it balanced...
>
> Fair enough. But keep in mind that the linux community pro-actively
goes
> after security issues, and publicizes everything they find. Microsoft
goes
> out of their way to hide problems, and slide fixes into weekly patches
> without telling people what they are up to. So the relative sizes of
> publicized problem lists is not an apples to apples comparison.
> Art
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