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Linux never gets a Virus!
The number of malicious programs — including viruses, Trojans, and other threats — specifically written for Linux has been on the increase in recent years and more than doubled during 2005 from 422 to 863
All operating systems are flawed. This is why GNU/Linux-based OS are constantly being updated.
I'm quite astonished you are a computer repairmen.
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
What distribution would you recommend for a first time user of Linux? ?
I thought "scalability" had a different meaning, that looks more like freedom to make copies than scalability.
Scalability - Systems implemented under Linux can be cloned limitless times without paying additional software licensing fees - With Windows, you pay for each installation/workstation/server/cpu.
As I have said in other occasions, the biggest problem I find with articles like this is that they, apparently, are not updated. What happened to Windows Vista and 7?
Reliability - The architecture of Linux is superior to Windows because critical operation system functions are implemented in such a way that buggy programs can't cause the computer to become unstable and crash. In fairness, though not quite as robust as Linux, Windows 2000 and Windows XP are much improved over Windows 9x and Windows Millenium Edition.
Not really true, Windows comes with a Web Server (I don't remember if it also has an email server, but there are several free ones), and those extras cost nothing, even if we don't find Windows firewall good enough (and it isn't as good as the best Linux firewalls) we can find free versions. Microsoft also has a free version of SQL Server, limited to 4GB databases, but enough for most cases.
Advanced Capabilities - In addition to the system utility tools from the Unix world, Linux usually comes with the Apache Webserver, an email server, router/firewall capabilities and SQL databases. These are extras costing up to thousands of dollars on Windows. There IS free software to do these jobs on Windows, but it has mostly been adapted from Linux and loses some functionality when ported to Windows.
Free support also exists from the millions of Windows users, and from what I have seen of Ubuntu support, it's not that good. Also, some Linux distros have paid support for some reason.
Support - For persons not familiar with the Open Source Community, the quality of free technical support on the internet may come as a shock. Sometimes knowing enough to ask the right questions can be a problem, but overall the best and the brightest are there to assist you at no charge when you run into problems that can't be solved by reading the documentation included with Linux. With Windows or other commercial software, your manufacturer support is only free for a limited time and is often of little value anyways.
Could you please explain this? As I never copy music (I am happy with a radio ) I don't know what you're talking about.
Originally posted by MarkJS
-They should not have taken away the ability to copy music files without even letting me know that
they were doing that.
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by PuterMan
Well, like I said, 90% of the PCs I get in here have some kind of Trojan on them. If you have went 10 years without your PC getting sick one time, then my hat is off to you. Same computer? Must have a big hard drive, or is it full of temp files and cookies yet? I worked on one a few days ago, 5 years old, and it has over 3000 cookies on the drive.
Originally posted by MarkJS
reply to post by ArMaP
Sure... on Windows 7- Copying a .wav file from one location to another in the computer is fine. But trying to copy a .CDA file from a CD Will Copy, but the copied file is only 44bytes in size. If you try to play it, the file is corrupt.
edit on 30/11/2011 by MarkJS because: clarification, hopefully
Originally posted by Hektik1
Originally posted by MarkJS
reply to post by ArMaP
Sure... on Windows 7- Copying a .wav file from one location to another in the computer is fine. But trying to copy a .CDA file from a CD Will Copy, but the copied file is only 44bytes in size. If you try to play it, the file is corrupt.
edit on 30/11/2011 by MarkJS because: clarification, hopefully
Why would you try to copy a .cda? Windows Media Player rips all songs (or .cda files) from a CD into MP3 format and puts in your Music folder on your computer, which you can then do whatever you like with.
Many other programs do this, but Windows Media Player is built into Windows and has always and still does do this.