[Coco] [OT} OS-9 on Raspberry Pi

[Richard E Crislip]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:55:34 -0500
Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While like many on this list I use multiple OSs, and I ahve tried to
> go the opensource route, for everyday computing I have found linux to
> work fine. OSX is sort-of linux, but they have dedicated paid
> developers working on the code to improve and fix bugs.  Windows is
> still my main OS, mainly because that is what the corporate world
> uses, and for developemt using CAD there is very little available on
> OSX or linux.  And quite frankly I do not blame the developers for
> this.  CAD is a specialized market, and a small percentage of the
> installed user base.
> 
> I hear this argument from every opensource person that the security is
> better, bugs are repaired faster, etc... while this is true, I look
> at it in terms of applications, and honestly there is not one linux
> application out there that there is not a better commercial counter
> part... now I am talking applications here, not the OS.
> 
> Security wise linux may well infact be more secure, but I believe
> that part of that is false statistics.  In general the people who get
> infected or hacked are the common users who treat there computer like
> it is a TV... Sure even the people who know better get the stray
> virus etc, but if you understand what to look for, and what not to
> due you are pretty safe using windows.  The other problem with the
> comparison is the installed user base.  I would venture that is you
> looked at just desktops and pulled servers and tablets out of the
> equiation you wold find that probable 80-90% of DESKTOPS/LAPTOPS will
> have windows on them, so of course that is were the virus writers,
> and hackers are going to focus there efforts.
> 
Hear hear! That has been my point for many years. It is also way
everyone picks on McDonald's. They are the biggest, Wendy's or Burger
King are not any better, they just do not have as large of a user base
as Micky Dee's