On October 29, 2007 06:53 pm Joe Clements wrote: > For what it is worth, Linux will only forge ahead in the market by > improvements in 2 areas. One of them is security. I would like to see > 1 security suite which has the capability to deal with ALL threats. > Windows security has to have an anti virus, anti trojan, adware and > malware protection, an anti browser hijacker, a rootkit checker, a > secure firewall, and these are all separate programs. Pardon me if I > missed one out. When Linux guarantees protection from all these > threats in 1 package, then one major hurdle holding back a greater > uptake of Linux will have been removed.
That flies in the face of the Unix philosophy of having a large toolkit full of small, single-purpose apps that do one thing, one thing only, and one thing really really well. Multi-purpose, jack-of-all-trades, swiss-army-knife bloatware is a Windows thing. Let's keep it there. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
