I just prefer to spend my time doing other things than chasing down the latest security patch or recompiling my entire system when gentoo updates something. What exactly is the point of having two desktop environments installed on my machine with similar applications, except one can only do have of what I use my machine for.ĭon’t give me crap telling me I don’t know how to run linux. I also prefer having a system that will run games properly without having to mess with wine or dual booting. X.org put the nail in the coffin for me, becuase last i checked gatos only support xfree86. One example of things that annoyed me, is that I grew very tired battling with XWindows to get both my tv and 3d funtions for my ATI Radeon AIW card to work. However, I prefer having one system that works properly and can be used for everything I need. No actually I know quite a bit about linux and unix in general. I am NOT saying switch back…I am saying.just cause you can’t figure out how to use the stapler…doesn’t make the paperclip better. If you are getting more “real work” done using windows, you never really learned how to use UNIX/LINUX. >On another note: There is this fad recently of Linux users going to WinXP and then posting about how they actually get “real work” done now. The FreeBSD team does a great job, and more people should learn from them, even companies such as redhat. This is why security needs to be one of those things when building a production level OS that is on equal ground with features. Now if this distro was built more secure from the ground up…at least I would have a fighting chance! Many people say “ohh i can make my (place linux distro here) far more secure then anything else out there blah blah” Ok that is true you can make a Linux machine VERY secure, but there are alot of things in many production equasions that are forgotten about. Securing it without breaking things the 3rd party software needs.is another task all in itself. Now out of the box this thing can be just as fast as a windows server.not something redhat should be proud of. At work management came over and said “this 3rd party software now”, the 3rd party vendor requires the use of redhat 9 or we don’t get support. Code audits, and extra security features should be a very high priority I am not saying linux distro’s should sacrifice all the features…but at least give some of the FreeBSD tried and true techniques a go. So many linux distro’s are full of security vulnerabilities and there seems to be no interest in fixing that.
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