Re: hacking Linux and Win

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Gordon wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:


It might be, its just that there are far far less of them.


Umm no. there are about equal numbers of Linux servers as Windows ones
(AFAIK) and it's the WINDOWS ones that get hacked........

Muy Bad..I meant there are less obvious *weaknesses* in Linux than windows..not the least of which has already been mentioned: Root access to a server is a jealously guarded secrete. Root access to windows is routine...

Linux/Unix was conceived from the ground up as a multiuser environment where system administration was an entirely different function, usually carried out by different personnel, to user functionality.
Windows was a basic program loader and IO handler, not a real operating system as such, and never had the concept of multiuser much before NT appeared. Nor anything approaching sane memory management, or concepts of protected areas.,

Its been market driven to provide facile functionality, at the almost complete expense of regular API's.

Unix and VMS were where TCP/IP came from more or less: Its been grafted onto windows, and it never really caught up.

The Internet is a multi user, layered access of TCP/IP networking: Windows a single user program loader with almost no networking native to it, simply entered this arena and never ever caught up.

Its sole remaining strength is its installed user base and the software available that only runs on it.

In every other way its a load of steaming wombat turds.

Have to quibble with you about VMS. The original networking protocol
for VMS was DECnet - a LAN only network. TCP/IP was grafted onto VMS
version 4 (maybe 5 - it's been a while) and the first few
implementations from Digital were very bad. Multinet did quite well
with their third-party TCP/IP stack for VMS because of Digital's lame
offerings.
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