Mac os. vs. Windows the greates war ever faught!

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:22 pm

I love hearing people say that they are safe on UNIX/Linux/Mac, because they are fooling themselves. True there isn't as many hackers or as much crap for those, as there is for Windows, but it still exists. Not everybody, but most people who think they are that secure don't use any protection software, which makes them just as vulnerable. Windows is fine as long as you know how to secure yourself. Besides, when you try talking people into using alternative operating systems, you're hurting yourself. The more people that use an operating system, the less secure that OS will become.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:05 pm

The thing is that Linux and most Unix systems have a builtin firewall, one that is even used on Linksys and other manufaturer's routers. On top of that as long as you have an accound for the admin that is not being touched by a virus/worm/ect. you havent anything to worry. With Unix any issue you have stays in that area, unless you have the admin password there is really very little you can do to mess up the system, so the most effective way to destroy a Unix install is to have physical access to it.

Now as for the whole thing of converting people over to alternitive OS. The more we get into the areas like BSD/Linux/Mac OS the better. Having people think is a good thing, its really hurt full for majority if the majority of people cant fix simple problems on their machines. Yeah you'll lose jobs but with more people using machines the right way and fixing problems like viruses, worms, spyware, adware and other things you get a smaller spread of them and it benfits all.

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:36 pm

Mac OSX. nothin but it. Except for my gaming PC (it's an Alienware!).

Nebb · Post by **Nebb** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:47 am

Longhorn!

(sucks)

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:32 pm

On my athlon 64 machine ive got the beta of XP64 and its alright, very fast but one small problem. It wont run Doom or Duke Nukem 3D!! it says that its a valid program but not designed for this operating enviroment, in other haha not 64 bit u suck go away

but apart from that it good

When that runs out (pretty soon i think) im planning on putting the 64-bit version of Ubuntu to see what thats like

legoboy · Post by **legoboy** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:50 pm

APPLE DOS FOREVER!!! ROCK ON APPLE IIe!!! Okay, that was fun

But seriously, OS X.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:51 pm

osx=good