Randy Abernathy 20:03 2004-07-14:
>I can't argue that it is stable and secure, for now.

For years.
And there is no reason to believe that will not continue, especially as more and more resorces are put into developing Linux.

> You and I  both know that the more popular it gets, the less secure it will be.

Agreed: IF there is voulnerabilities in a OS the virus using them will spread faster the more system running that OS.

Today there are more Linux based servers on internet than Microsoft based ones, still IIS viruses are thousand (more i guess) more than Apache ones, so...

>Some hacker

You mean cracker

> will start to produce viruses, trojan horses, worms, etc. that will  invade it.

The opennes and that a lot of both competing and cooperating organizations and companies work on this, leads to much more opennes also about problems ore even potential problems.  History have also showed that important issues are more quickly solved on Linux than Windows.

And when there is no security hole it does not matter how many crackers there are trying to find it.

As opposed to Windows closed technology where it seems you can dig up hole after hole, some a cuple years old.

But -of course- admins need to know what they do configuring *any* OS.

/Morgan
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