Originally posted by: Derango
Originally posted by: chorner
I can reccomend SUSE 9. No problems whatsoever here other than your usual Linux crap .... its nice fast and stable; no problems getting my games, DVD's, MP3's etc. working. Everything works as expected. Still no Windows XP pro though ... don't fall for the MS is less secure crap; search on the net for Linux vs Windows security and you'll see that Linux (some distros in specific) outnumber MS in security exploits by a good margin. MS seems to be mid-low on the spectrum when it comes to security.
Something to consider. Don't listen to the BS and find the facts.
Ok, first of all, its in microsofts best intrests to keep code exploits hidden until the absoltly have to let people know about them. I mean, they're a busniess. Who's going to buy a product with a gaping, unpatched security hole? Who knows how many security holes they know about but nobody else has found yet.
Second, in most cases, when a security issues is found in an open source product, there's a patch out within 24-48 hours. Individual distros may not be secure because they don't automaticly update their package versions when a new security patch comes out (with the exception of a few distros), but if an individual user keeps up, then their system should be more secure than the original distro was.
Really, what the whole thing comes down to is the willingness of the user to go out and look for patches and actually install them. This applies to both windows and linux and any other program that has ever been written. Both platforms are only as secure as the user makes it out to be.
And yea, SuSE 9 is a nice distro, didn't have any real problems when I tried it, but I ended up going back to gentoo since I prefer the way it handles packages.