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viruses , lock ups , activeX problems , price of windows , price of windows software and BSOD
plus you could say something about not being able to repair it and having to reinstall it as maintenance
And the trend towards so called trusted computing which opens the possibility of way too much private system access and monitoring by microsoft on the premise of worm/virus protection, a nasty not going to occur with Linux/Unix/Mac
Thank you all for your replies, and any new ones would still be great!
I will be sure to include information about the viruses and worms associated with Windows and with Linux (there are linux viruses and windows viruses can affect linux if windows and linux share a partition!) and mantainence options.
For mantainence:
What is the Linux alternative to Defrag or is there such a thing?
What is the Linux alternative to Disk Cleanup or is there such a thing?
Is there any Linux Spyware/Adware removers/scanners? Info?
What are some good Linux Anti-Virus tools besides Bit Defender? Any front-ends?
In Linux I know of no defrag ,<edit> Linux uses the same as Mac .</edit>. There are cron tasks, daily weekly and monthly - these rotate out logs etc. Mac has an automatic file by file type of defrag, and similar crons and a native disk utility to control file permissions. There are virus type concerns, but they are minor by comparison to windows, and inherently pose less threat because of the user permission structure in all Unix type systems. Have a read in the Security Forums right here
Ooooh, Kernel structure... one of my favorite points about linux...... should that go into the terminal section? Or should it have a section of its own? Sorry, but I really don't know where it would go in the Windows section, as the Windows Kernel isn't talked about allot...
Originally posted by danny_beta_read Well, thank you all for your input.... one more question:
Will a i386 Linux distro work on a 486 comp? Never really knew....
every x86 chip (starting with the 8086) is upward compatible, but not downward, a i386 distro could work fine on a Pentium 4 for all the chip cares, a 8086 program could work on a Pentium 4 also
how about the "permissions" structure of the filesystem.......
UNIX/Linux thought of this concept first, and M$ stole the IDEA(so what else is new) and incorporated it into winNT, win 2K, and win XP!!!
Well, sadly, my three main comps. were hacked Saturday night, and the IDE chipsets in 2 got wrecked when the computer overheated due to the fans being turned off, so I won't be able to compare any linux distros that require install for a long time, so could anyone recommend any English Live CDs not found on http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php? The more the better.
Thanks in advance!
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