Len Paris wrote: > I believe all of that. What touched a hot button was the > implication that non-Linux users are somehow bringing this all > on themselves by not using Linux.
I apologize if I gave that implication, I really should be more more verbose than quick quips. I am an avid Microsoft non-user, not hater, as I believe the windows platform has much to offer in game playing world, its slick interface and easy access APIs make it easy to add new tools. My children use windows for there games, as linux is not a game playing platform, Funny thing, someone mentioned the added per user implementation in XP, but you still need to be admin, to play games (sigh). Linux is not totally virus free, however does suffer from many exploitable buffer overflows, a great failing of linux was that when installed, all services were turned on, presumably on the assumption that if you installed it, you wanted to use it. Now, with RedHat, these services need to be manually swithched on and firewalling is built in by default. As a Sys Admin I monitor logs daily for a vast number of machines and we get on average about 2 dozen scans or attempted breakins each hour. We have had only 1 machine comprimised in the last 6 years. There are many good desktop features now in linux, for our purposes The Gimp, is a good photo editting tool and gaining in popularity as alot of amateur photographers cannot afford tools such as photoshop, coupled with the price of a MS lisence. I am hoping that in the future we will see companies like PENTAX, Canon and Minolta realease the required drivers for linux, or at least give access to the API's, most printer manufactures now do this, and now most scanner drivers are also available. With MS heading towards .net, or applications as service, I can see many people not wanting to purchase these services and opting for MacOS or Linux as a substitute. Kind regards Kevin Waterson - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
