Global Security Watch > Linus Torvalds: Don't glorify the security "monkeys"

The Open Roadhttp://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9993157-16.html [The Open Road] While many point to Linux as superior to Windows as offering superior security, Torvalds doesn't want anyone to make a fetish of security, including the OpenBSD people to whom he addresses this classic missive: .

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eaves.ca[eaves.ca] Hackers are Social Activists mashup! - Eric Raymond vs. Bill Moyes: But where they had failed, Linus Torvalds and his community had succeeded. And they did not merely fulfill the minimum requirements of stability and functioning Unix interfaces.

Computer Forensics[Computer Forensics] Activation key for recover my files: Some Distributions of Linux include Gentoo, and Slackware, which due to the lack of a complete graphical environment is best, suited for Linux experts, programmers, and other users that know their way around a command prompt. Distributions that lack a graphical environment are best suited for older computers lacking the processing power necessary to process graphics, or for computers performing processor intensive task, where it is desirable to have all of the system resources focused on the task at hand, rather than wasting resources by processing graphics.

Marco Home Page[Marco Home Page] Old but valuable article from Stallman (Ctrl+h Ctrl+p in Emacs): In 1991, Linus Torvalds developed a Unix-compatible kernel and called it Linux. Around 1992, combining Linux with the not-quite-complete GNU system resulted in a complete free operating system.

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