RE: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat


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From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:41 PM
To: tomas@xxxxxxx; For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Tomas Larsson wrote:

My experience:
[...]
The rumour that XP is unreliable etc, is just a rumour.
I have never been infected with a viruus on my XP-boxes, however I
have been rooted once on my FC-boxes.
Obviously it was my own fault, forgot about an old phpBB
installation
on a public webserver.

You must be very young, very firewalled, or very lucky - or
your machines all came pre-installed with some service pack
level. There was a point when if you installed a fresh XP or
win2k the odds were that you would be hit by a virus before
you cold get the service packs installed over the internet.

The so-called problem with Windows is, I think, that there
are so much
crap software out there, that people install without any
thoughts at
all, plus the fact that people use quite a lot of cracked
sw, with no
clue what's in it.

That's only a small part of the problem. There have been
dozens of possible exploits within IE, so all it takes is
visiting a site that triggers it. Likewise, many of the
outlook exploits did not require that you open the message.

I use XP because it gets the work done, with a minimum of
work, I dont
want to spend days trying to figure out on how to read from a CD or
weeks to figure out why my network-card does not work.

That has to more to do with buying a machine with a
preinstalled OS than which OS it is.

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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx



I have never bought any box pre-installed except laptops.
I always by my boxes as parts, assembling them myself.

I never use OEM-SW neither on XP nor W2K.
The latest laptop I got, was pre-installed with XP-Home, I ditched that,
reformated the drive and installed XP-PRO.
Furthermore I don't use any SW-firewalls, except on the laptop I carry with
me, since I connect up wherever i find a WiFi spot avaible.

I have never been infected with virus, when connecting to the net for the
first updates, not even when using one of the original pre-SP1 CD's. Not
even running in front of my firewall.
Yes I use a firewall, before it was an old AMD-K6 with RH9, now it is an
P2-400 with FC5, using gShield script.
I have never used a dedicated firewall, probably by habit, since they were
so expensive onece upon a time, and a scrap P1-160 with RH7/9 was a cheaper
solution.

So I simly don't buy that you get infected first time you are connected.



With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden
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