On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:56:35 -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nate Duehr" <nate@natetech.com>
> Subject: Re: [OT] Workgroup infestation
> 
> 
> Just last week the news was not one, but two, browser borne Linux exploits.
> I guess that's why you don't pay for it, eh?

John,

And this week is IE:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13482/

No software is perfect, otherwise we wouldn't have debuggers. :)


James, 

it's a chicken and egg problem... no apps because there is no demand,
because there are no apps.  :)  I'm not trying to be rude, but your
Linux security problems are probably operator error combined with the
early distributions' habit of enabling a lot of services by default. 
I haven't used Windows with administrative priviliedges for about 6
years now so if I put a Windows box up on the net, I'd probably get
owned too.

I have found SDCC very useable for 8051, and there are a lot of
resources out there for PICs on Linux, like http://www.gnupic.org/

I don't know why, but AVR's are very well supported in Linux, since
there is a port of GCC with all the associated tools.

Alex
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