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Originally Posted by 1loudsvt
this is getting way off topic but i had to chime in...
what is the mac kernel built around?
answer that question and you will know that all oses can have viruses....macs and linux oses are not targeted because of the very low market share....why design a virus that will only affect 1/100 (if that) of computer users when you could create one that affects the other 99/100?
the saefest os is the worst os because noone will target it.
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Yeah, that's basically what I meant,
that all OSes can get viruses, but no one bothers making them.
I do know about mac's security measures, and they do a great job of catching 99.9% of the viruses/etc.
Although there are every now and then some that do get through their detection,(mainly adware type stuff)
but it's usually caught within a day or two max,
and then taken care of.
I'm not sure about the linux security measures and if they act the same way as mac's security stuff does, but from Whosdaman's post above it sounds that way, and I missed that part when I first read it. Sorry bout that.
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Originally Posted by schettj
BSD/Mach
Both MacOS and Linux enjoy better security due to their far lower priority user level (seriously, everyone runs as admin for winxp, and winmo? Hey we're all root!)
Indeed we are getting far afield. However there is no doubt the security model of windows is badly broken.
Now, when are we getting that opengl driver?
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I always have a way with leading threads off topic.
I run out of room in my inbox too fast,
and hate deleting messages all the time.
And I agree about the user priority level thing.
We are wayy off topic, but here's where we're at with the OpenGl driver,
we still need this:
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Anyhow there is one more missing link and that is clkregim, the rest seem compatible and do not require wrappers hopefully.
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To read the whole post and not just the part that I quoted above,
go here.
(link to previous post in this thread).