Mmmmm...a fair bit of MCSE-type FUD there Brian...security through obscurity is not really a trait of those operating systems whose source is completely open. Vulnerabilities are found very quickly, and usually patched before they can be exploited. Nobody waits until they are "outed", before grudgingly releasing a patch when it's already far too late. OpenBSD, for instance, has had one real-world exploitable issue in 8 years, and that was patched within hours of discovery. Linux isn't pretending to be safe because users think the skript kiddies haven't yet discovered it. The plethora of worms and viruses doing the rounds these days don't directly affect OSS systems not because there are so few, but because the malware doesn't interoperate with it. And IE/Outlook/Outlook Express aren't so vulnerable and easily exploited because "most" people use them: it's because they are wide open to attack. As with Windows: XP usershave administrator priviledges by default. Not good.Manukau heads observer wrote:there is plenty of vunerability in Linux,etc....its just that hackers/virus makers dont target it, becuase its not as popular as window.
you can read all about it on the internet, those sorts of debates.
Still, it doesn't matter. Go with what works for you, I always say.
Its still stuck on the 4th at 1610 
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