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Recommended read (Wednesday, May 04, 2005)

I came across a great article this morning while searching my regular news sites. The article is entitled Open Source vs Windows: Reality of a Better Paradigm. You can read the article for yourself here. You know, it's funny how true the article is. Windows is not the ideal OS for servers, or anything for that matter. Earlier I wrote a post about replacing the hard drive in Sarah's laptop. After installing Windows, and within minutes of booting, the computer was already infected by two viruses, with a third knocking at the door (the viruses got in while I was installing the firewall... I guess I didn't think anything about the lan cable being plugged in while doing this). I couldn't believe it. In fact, I was dumbfounded. I have installed Linux on several of my systems at home, even FreeBSD on one. And on all of them, I did a network install... I downloaded the core OS from the internet directly to the computer I was installing it on through the installation program. No viruses. Nothing. Of course, my internal network is secure. I've got a hardware firewall that takes care of most of the problems, and for those few pests that do get through, I've got software firewalls and virus scanners (on my two Windows machines I do have). Anyways, read the article. You'll be amused.

- Aaron

posted by Aaron and Sarah at 6:56 AM   
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