Comments on: Vulnerabilities Have Not Faded From the Threat Foreground, Larry http://mrpogson.com/2008/11/03/vulnerabilities-have-not-faded-from-the-threat-foreground-larry/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/2008/11/03/vulnerabilities-have-not-faded-from-the-threat-foreground-larry/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Robert Pogson Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:43:41 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=134#comment-651 I first used GNU/Linux in 2000 when ME was new. I had a cluster of five machines run flawlessly for six months on the same hardware that '95 choked on hourly. If you have to attack me personally to make your point, your point must be pretty weak. That other OS is better than GNU/Linux for some things but running a PC is not one of them. I value efficiency and speed, not whether a particular OS runs with a particular piece of hardware I do not have. I have only seen two pieces of hardware I could not use with GNU/Linux: one printer, one modem and one NIC in nine years and hundreds of installations. In the same time, I have seen a similar number of peripherals that did not have a driver for that other OS: one was on ME, M$ no longer licensed a driver needed by the maker's driver (USB thingy), another was a RTL8139 NIC that did not work with a re-installation of an XP machine (XP was new but the NIC was newer), and I have seen a few that needed a driver when a USB storage device was inserted... Sad. We all know there are old or new things that may never have a driver for a particular OS. That is not a figure of merit for an OS. Things that make a good OS are speed and efficiency. Phoning home is not efficient. Scanning for DRM and malware is not efficient. Reading through directories for search (as XP did for the longest time) is not efficient, and re-re-rebooting is not efficient. GNU/Linux, on the other hand, has had infinite care taken of the smallest details of scheduling, locking, security and throughput, publicly, for many years before M$ even mentioned the word, "security". That makes GNU/Linux a better OS in my view. Something as bloated and bug-ridden as that other OS, with clear design flaws like integrating the browser, cannot be considered a good OS. On top of that, M$ is a despicable corporation with a long history of illegal trade practices with which I care not to deal. I first used GNU/Linux in 2000 when ME was new. I had a cluster of five machines run flawlessly for six months on the same hardware that ’95 choked on hourly.

If you have to attack me personally to make your point, your point must be pretty weak.

That other OS is better than GNU/Linux for some things but running a PC is not one of them.

I value efficiency and speed, not whether a particular OS runs with a particular piece of hardware I do not have. I have only seen two pieces of hardware I could not use with GNU/Linux: one printer, one modem and one NIC in nine years and hundreds of installations. In the same time, I have seen a similar number of peripherals that did not have a driver for that other OS: one was on ME, M$ no longer licensed a driver needed by the maker’s driver (USB thingy), another was a RTL8139 NIC that did not work with a re-installation of an XP machine (XP was new but the NIC was newer), and I have seen a few that needed a driver when a USB storage device was inserted… Sad.

We all know there are old or new things that may never have a driver for a particular OS. That is not a figure of merit for an OS.

Things that make a good OS are speed and efficiency. Phoning home is not efficient. Scanning for DRM and malware is not efficient. Reading through directories for search (as XP did for the longest time) is not efficient, and re-re-rebooting is not efficient. GNU/Linux, on the other hand, has had infinite care taken of the smallest details of scheduling, locking, security and throughput, publicly, for many years before M$ even mentioned the word, “security”. That makes GNU/Linux a better OS in my view. Something as bloated and bug-ridden as that other OS, with clear design flaws like integrating the browser, cannot be considered a good OS. On top of that, M$ is a despicable corporation with a long history of illegal trade practices with which I care not to deal.

]]> By: TheTruth http://mrpogson.com/2008/11/03/vulnerabilities-have-not-faded-from-the-threat-foreground-larry/comment-page-1/#comment-649 TheTruth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:14:03 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=134#comment-649 "company who released ‘95, ‘98, and ME" And where was linux in the 90's ? Haha it couldnt even run X11 properly on my Cirrus logic 2mb vram vga card. It was COMPLETELY USELESS at that time. As far as security is concerned you should head over to secunia to see the horibble mess linux is in. I understand that linux supporters have to lie to show linux is better, but maybe in your case you have to think like a primitive monkey. “company who released ‘95, ‘98, and ME”

And where was linux in the 90′s ? Haha it couldnt even run X11 properly on my Cirrus logic 2mb vram vga card. It was COMPLETELY USELESS at that time.

As far as security is concerned you should head over to secunia to see the horibble mess linux is in.

I understand that linux supporters have to lie to show linux is better, but maybe in your case you have to think like a primitive monkey.

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