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Originally posted by Vorlin
1: Linux is more stable and secure right out of the box!
If you install it without a hitch, yes, it will be more stable. If you configure stuff wrong, no it won't be more stable. As for security, BSD is the only one that's REALLY REALLY secure right out of the box. Security = 1 / convenience. However secure you want your box, expect to spend exponentially more time with it, monitoring logs, shutting down services not needed, port scanning your machine, nmapping your network to see where things go, etc etc. You get the drift.
Vorlin, the first line of what you wrote is a dangerous generalisation. Linux in and of itself (as in a compiled kernel without services) is very much more secure than say, Win9x/ME. Unfortunately, most people consider linux to mean a distro, and security varies from distro to distro. I'm glad to see RedHat finally shaping up and locking down their boxes by default, but it wasn't that long ago that shipping versions of RedHat (6.2, 7.0, 7.1) had serious vulnerabilities in services that were started by default.
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Linux has one thing that MS will never ever get or comprehend: the ability to change anything you want. You want login to say "Welcome Master, how can I serve you today?", sure thing, just get the source to login, change it, compile it, move it into production, and booya, there you go.
Funny thing you should say that... :p