Another aspect of this is that in Windows it's notoriously difficult to run as anything other than an Administrator and have anything work. In Linux/UNIX, operating as root is seldom necessary.
On 5/9/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I have seen happen a lot is people switch to Linux > > because they hate > > windows. Everything is up and running fine for them but they > > do not invest > > the proper time to learn how to maintain the box to keep > > aware of security > > patches. Now you have an OS with multiple services from multiple open > > source projects and anyone of those can end up having a > > security exploit > > that some 12 year old will use to "own" the box and the admin > > may never even > > know the kid is in there. Windows certainly gets more than > > its fair share > > of exploits but it just seems like with the typical weekend > > sysadmin that > > the process to alert people of exploits and fixes for them is > > much better in > > the windows world. > > I think you are correct for /some/ Linux distributions (like Mandriva), > but this is not the case for the majority of them. The biggest security > difference between Windows and Linux is that Linux forces the sysadmin > to turn on services as he needs them. Windows 2000 and earlier assumed > you'd need stuff like IIS/FTP/Telnet/etc. and turned them on by default. > Win2k3 and Linux assume you don't need anything but bare functionality, > and you have to manually turn on the services you need. This has been a > standard security practice in the computing world for years, but Windows > introduced the "we trust our users and hope there aren't any hackers" > mentality. -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://jr-holmes.coldfusionjournal.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239932 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
