[Sheflug] Linux Demo Days

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> http://www.suse.de/uk/sheffield.html

Very good-looking.

But....  The statement about viruses is disgenuous.  It's true that
Wintel-based viruses don't work on Linux, but Linux viruses (actually,
they work on any ELF platform) have been written (though none are
known in the wild, AFAIK).  If a user is naive enough to not know what
Linux is, they probably identify "virus" with "security problem", and
Linux is _affected_ by many security problems.

I would phrase it "Linux is inherently unaffected by common viruses
targeted at the Windows and Mac OSes, and furthermore offers a broad
range of active enhancements to workstation and network security over
those platforms."

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