Windows, Linux, The Debate: which is best?

[Dick Davies]

On 18/01/06, Duncan Anderson <duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Well, you are lucky. About a month ago, the company's Windows 2003
> Server started rebooting spontaneously, causing much disruption of work.
> It turned out to be an "unpatched" rpc vulnerability which had been
> exploited.

So your windows admins didn't patch a box and it got done over.
That happens on any OS, and they could have just run a firewall to
avoid it.

> The fix involved downloading 130 odd MB of patch/update software and
> rebooting again. If that's not "showstopping" I don't know what is.

No, that's an outage. A kernel update (we got one this morning) needs
a reboot to take effect.
If they're production boxes and can't reboot right now, enable a firewall.

That's not a 'showstopper'. An OS upgrade that doesn't let you revert it,
which is what Sasha mentioned, is.

So, bad example.
I suspect if you gave those (shaved monkeys?) admins a Linux box, they
could f*ck that up before too long as well.

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