On 11/26/05, Olin Lathrop wrote: > Shawn Tan wrote: > > And if that's the case, most of > > the world's web servers run Linux + Apache.. Shouldn't there be more > > worms or such created to take these machines down?? > > No, since those machines don't have dumb users on them. > > Linux hasn't been plagued by worms and such as much because 1) there are a > lot fewer Linux installations, and 2) Linux users are still much more an > elite group, much like computer users in the 1980's. Back then you actually > had to *know* something to use a computer. Nowadays any moron can use a > computer, and they are going to run Windows. > I tend to agree with this even people will think this is FUD. However the users are not real stupid. They just do what makes their life easier. Top posting is one of them when using OE/Outlook. The software designers need to consider average Joe users, not only the elite. Linux is inherently more stable? Look at the code. I am not good at programming but I see a lot of "FixMe" things there. I think once the Linux developers remove all those "FIXME" things in the source code, it will be much a better system. But is it all possible? I guess there are also many "FIXME" things in Windows. We can not see it since it is closed source. However we know it and Mr Gates knows it. If we consider reliability of complex systems, Windows/Linux are all very complicated systems and they bounds to be bugs. Microsoft used to have bad attitutes but they are doing a better job now. Linux is also doing better jobs now. However both will still have lots of bugs. That is life and most of business softwares are without warranty, free or not free, open source or not open source. ;-( Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist