Response to DL_Wraith
DL what rock have you beening hiding under?? People only make such statements when that they know better.. When the issue of security is raised, or is the issue of the tall order of the day, Windows has been at it for decades trying to shore up and make the OS more secure. The industry of commercial Virus, Malware, and other protective measure software is written by in large, and almost exclusively for "Windows" and associated Microsoft Products.
When the last time you've seen a package on the shelf for Linux?? To further debunk your redderick, take a survey percentage wise of the preferred platform web-servers run on, I'm sure you'll find that Apache' has approximately eighty-plus percent of that market and growing! DL, this can't be by accident, No, it's simply the truth and the way things are! And you and your lack of knowledge of Linux's inner workings won't change that fact!! Right out of the box with no configurations or modification, Linux will suppass Windows any day of the week when it comes to the more "secure" platform.
In case you didn't know, Linux was based, and derived from Unix, Probably the most secure OS ever created, and you certainly can't match, proclaim, or beat someone into thinking Windows can be just as secure as Unix, and if you believe it can be, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you!! No one ever said that Linux can't be infected, I don't think anyone can or will boast or advertise that, But what you'll find, in most cases is less worry and stress of running Linux, Linux Admins are not tied down to "Baby-Sitting" Linux, as much as a Windows Admin would be administering a backroom full of Windows Servers, security patches, bundled updates, keeping servers virus signatures updated all take time out of a sys admins already busy day, time which could be better spent doing other more important things.
Speaking of performance, Windows becomes so bloated over the years from all the updates of the updates of the updates, that it's performance in just running begins to suck!!! Taking precious time just to load, complete a simple task or even just to shutdown!! In a lot of cases the performance gets so terrible and ridiculous that your only remedy is to blow it away, start fresh and reload all your applications.. (Oooooh yeah, I can really see you having fun there)DL.
I've used, and built systems for folks with various versions of Linux on them, guess what?? They're still running, and running as if they were freshly loaded, I've got units out there thats been running for close to eight years, and they've required "No" "OS System" reloads!
