Windows, Linux, The Debate: which is best?

[Sasha Tsykin]

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 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.
>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,
>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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That by the way is true, my school runs a linux server, which manages to 
work approximately 1% of the time, give or take 0.

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Sasha