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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>>>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
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>>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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>You forgot 'patching it', which was kind of my point.
>There are plenty of reasons to slag MS, but putting unpatched boxes into
>service is just stupid, whatever OS they're running.
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>>Well this whole discussion is getting boring. Windows is crap, and
>>nothing will ever convince me otherwise.
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>That's fine, but then stop pretending it's a reasoned opinion and we'll
>get on with something else.
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nicely said

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