PostHeaderIcon Why is Linux more secure?

 

While chris_k discovers that 1st-year IT schooling isn't as easy as he thought, and mike_k is out wherever he is writing a script to automate half the Gulf Coast on a machine running only a Pentium Pro and 32MB of RAM, I figured I'd take the opportunity to address a basic concept that a number of us have taken for granted: Why is Linux synonymous with security?

 

PostHeaderIcon Linux Mint 8

I've been seeing a lot about this 3rd-generation Debian distro (meaning "Ubuntu respin") but I just couldn't bring myself to care much about it. After all, if Ubuntu's strongest suit is that everything "just works" and saves the shuddering masses from having to type anything more complicated than their own name, how can this be any better?

Last Updated (Sunday, 31 January 2010 22:16)

 

PostHeaderIcon Micro-Distros part 3

This is getting nuts.

Once again, I started out with the idea of reviewing two separate distros only to discover (again) that they're both micro, or mini, or whatever. TinyCore was reviewed in one of my previous micro-distro comparisons; that was version 2.3 and it acquitted itself well. This time we have version 2.8 and I thought it was as good a time as any to see what's new and exciting with it. In addition we have Android-x86, which I wanted to do in the previous Micro-Distros installment but I couldn't get it installed/configured in time and still finish a paper I had to do for school.

Last Updated (Friday, 29 January 2010 08:17)

 
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