What Red Hat CEO and chairman Matt Szulik meant was that the open source and open standards in the hands of the developers, IT managers and systems administrators today will be the applications tomorrow’s developers will use en masse. It’s for the children, really.
Archive for May 9, 2007
What’s Your Distro?
Why should you care about Linux? Well, did you know that Microsoft Windows XP phones home every time you use it? Yuppers, it does so without the user knowing it. Can you say insecure spyware and virus target? I thought you could. Yikes.
Now while Mac OS X doesn’t have any of these security concerns (being built on a Unix-like base), Mac computers are proprietary. So, in the future, if they want to slip in some ‘phone home’ cuteness a la XP, then no one will be the wiser. Yes, I know that’s FUD, but I’m a longtime Mac head and that’s the best I can come up with.
This leaves us with Linux. Linux comes in many flavors, called distributions, or distros, for short.
