Re-installing FC5

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Sep 5 13:51:42 UTC 2006


Tod Merley wrote:

> It is my hope that we detach our feelings about our OSs and attend to
> their need for security.

>From my experience, the probability of a Linux system being compromised
is almost negligible compared with the same for a Windows system.

This may be, as you suggest, because hackers target Windows systems.
But that doesn't alter the fact that Linux systems are much safer
in the real world.

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