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Originally posted by Luka88bg
well...I have a question......can evrythng work on ubuntu? I downloaded it, and i about to instal it.....so...is it better than XP? is there any bad things? 
It took me a while to work out how to get games running under Linux. It takes an extra minute or so to get some Windows applications to work. I did document a few things you might want to know though, in my
LJ. Since I worked it out I haven't had any problems, but still, YMMV.
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Originally posted by joemailey
there's no known viruses/worms - Well why target something thats not the most popular o/s in the world?
The same thing was say about Firefox, Max osx and others.
but yet they've gained on M$ oh n wat do we see now worms n viruses and loopholes being found.
Why target an OS that's said to be more secure? Not only would you bring down more servers if viruses targetted Linux or a Unix, but you would get extra geek points for writing the first widespread Unix virus.
There was a worm for OOo going around not long ago, because the designers stupidly leave macros turned on by default [why office documents need hard drive access is beyond me], which if I'm not mistaken is also a feature of MS Office products. Otherwise, there isn't much in the way of [real] Linux sploits.
But that's not the point. Too many big companies rely on software like Linux for them not to check that the code is secure, and they can actually do it legally. The people who use it check the code [well not everyone, but project leaders and commercial users]. Simple as that. If they were to notice that something wasn't right, it would cost THEM if they didn't notify the proper parties.
Linux is not foolproof. Matter of fact, it's mostly a hack, and it's got a heap of design flaws as well [eg. it's a monolithic kernel], but it
is mostly written by people who know about security and the principal of least privilege. You really need to get used to the user model of a Unix to understand just how strong the difference is to Windows.
Another important thing to know is that Linux users have typically known more about their OS. They know when a GKSU request is bogus. It amazes me how many people get phished on myspace, say. You never used to see stupidity like that from a Linux user, but I'm going to bet there will be people falling for stupid crap like that now.
EDIT: @Joemailey,
Firefox didn't get buggy because it got more popular, it got buggy because it had to support the mangled HTML that frontpage [and others] produces. That said, Firefox still needs work, specifically, it needs individual Javascript namespaces for each tab or site, and it needs to be modularised.
