Windows, Linux, The Debate: which is best?

[Duncan Anderson]

Dick Davies wrote:

>On 18/01/06, Duncan Anderson <duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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The machine had just been reinstalled after a disk drive failure. It got 
zapped before the patches even had a chance to finish downloading.

With a Linux box it would have been simple matter of reinstalling the 
machine, turning off unnecessary services and carrying on.

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>>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.
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>No, that's an outage. A kernel update (we got one this morning) needs
>a reboot to take effect.
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A reboot on its own is hardly an outage, but having the server go up and 
down like a yoyo over a period of days until the patches succeed is. 
What I am asking is why should anyone have to put up with this type of 
shit when it costs such a lot of money?

>If they're production boxes and can't reboot right now, enable a firewall.
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>That's not a 'showstopper'. An OS upgrade that doesn't let you revert it,
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Well this whole discussion is getting boring. Windows is crap, and 
nothing will ever convince me otherwise.

Enjoy your Windows machines, if that's what you like.

cheers
Duncan

>which is what Sasha mentioned, is.
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>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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