The lack of malware on Linux may be about to change after a developer admitted he has developed a 'package of malware for Unix/Linux'
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lozz
2 years 24 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago
The "Unethical" Buchner Johannes
What's with this so-called Buchner Johannes?
He claims that he is about to demonstrate to us that "Linux" is not as secure from malware as we think.
This is a phony premise simply because none of us think anything of the sort.
We are all very well aware that malware can easily be written for GNU/Linux and many of us take active precautions against such an eventuality.
The fact that very little of such malware has actually been written is a bonus to our security, but hardly a cause for complacency.
If the unethical Mr Johannes thinks we really need our noses rubbed in something we already know, then it is because he is doing it for one reason, and one reason only.
It is because it would please M$ immensely to be able to trumpet to the media that malware has been found in GNU/Linux and therefore GNU/Linux is no more secure than M$.
Is that what this nasty little charade is all about, Mr Johannes?
Lanadapter
2 years 24 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago
Yeah
Anyone who thinks any operating system is completely immune to malware has no idea what purpose an OS serves. If malware was impossible then using regular software would not be possible either as in both cases you're just running code.