On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:45, Cliff Wells wrote: > > IMHO, that probably has more to do with the nature of the Linux admin > than the OS in question. Admins who choose Linux tend to have a bit of > the hacker nature whereas the average Windows admin includes the > clueless who have just enough knowledge and tenacity to acquire a > certification but not much more.
I have known some really sharp and knowledgeable guys who were MSCEs but it seems that the majority of the guys I see as admins sort of learn the right box to click and enter data in but terribly limited in knowing what actually happens. And some of them make the big bucks too :( Generally I think that most folks who administer Linux boxes know a bit more about the "why to" instead of only the "how to" than the average Windows guy. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues in the wake of all the redhat-config-* tools that make it pretty easy to get a box going even though it may be mis-configured and potentially less secure than it ought to be. Of course that is not to say I haven't been able to mis-configure a box from the command line. Tools like up2date should help keep software current and I believe that the vast majority of code running under linux is more secure simply because of the fact that *nixes have been doing true multiuser and networking from the get go rather than building from a base of a single user and not network connected. I knew something must be fisshy way back when after I had to download trumpets tcp/ip stack just to get windows dialup working. I still bristle at the thought of a multi-billion dollar industry buildt around virus scanning and firewalling just because the historical MS assumption that easier is better than secure. My 2 cents. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
