Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:11:40 +0100 Anne Wilson disseminated the following: If you can believe that you can believe anything. There are flaws in XP that have been known since the days of NT4. OK - security patches exist for most of them, but 2 releases on, why were they not fixed in the

RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Josh
Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of applications that ship with Linux vs. the amount of applications that ship with windows. They did

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:30 am, JoeHill wrote: It's a mildly interesting statistic that Mandrake came out not so near the top, but hey, we're competing with Red Hat, Debian and Suse here, these are tough competitors, so I'm not surprised. They have serious financial and/or human resources

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Glenn
On Friday 02 April 2004 15:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: Last, I would take with several grains of salt, anything that any of the analyst companies put out regarding Linux and Microsoft products. We have seen several get bought and steer studies in the direction that MS wants as well as refusing

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 05:58 pm, Glenn wrote: I was thinking this analyst company sounded familiar and then it occurred to me that Forrester Research is the company who changed its policy about sponsored research studies when they got caught last year, right?

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 23:17, Josh wrote: Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of

[newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-01 Thread frankieh
Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources.