[Spridgets] No LBC - computer malware

[bjshov8 at tx.rr.com]

I "did my time" running a Unix machine at work, I don't need any Linux.  Somtimes I think Linus Torvald should be considered a domestic terrorist- his copy of Unix has found its way into all manner of devices, including my $^&(*&^^ home DVR.  I remember from my Unix machine that Unix is very bad at managing multitasking and Linux seems to be similar.  Whenever my DVR decides it wants to do some of its own housekeeping it just completely locks out any less serious matters such as receiving commands from the remote control or displaying audio/video on the television.  Our Linus server at work crapped out and it took us 2 days to get up and running again.  Our supplier was not much help and I have not been able to find anyone else in our city (granted it's a small town with only about 3 million residents) that can help us with it.  I finally did enough research on my own to enable me to fix it.

Seriously though I know what you mean.  If Linux does what you need and you can put up with it that's great.  I don't understand the matter of viruses though.  When our supplier first installed our Linux server he said that even though its GUI has a browser we should not under any circumstances go onto the internet with it because it was a sitting duck and completely unprotected.


> Which is one of the reasons why all my pc's run Linux..  ;)