Good Call rakedog. I have to admit that windows does have some nice-user friendly features, but I don't believe in security by obscurity. When you type in a url in your address bar, you leave off the :80 because it is accepted, thereby obscruing the port it is using. It is extremly simple to find out what port the server is sending its data on. Just because you obscrure the source of a program doesn't make it any more secure.
As for a "windows" update, obviously there is not a "windows" update for linux, but all I have to do when I want to update things is "urpmi --auto-select" and then confirm that I want to install the packages.
How so? Just because it isn't windows, why would that turn away a hacker. If it does, wouldn't that be supporting linux, not windows.Perhaps you have had no such attacks because its not Windows; and not just because its harder to Break into?
As for a "windows" update, obviously there is not a "windows" update for linux, but all I have to do when I want to update things is "urpmi --auto-select" and then confirm that I want to install the packages.
Really though, if you spent more time on the original code, would you really need Service Packs? Look at windows Me. That was a little before my time, but how long was it in production? How many things are wrong with it? How long did it take before they quit supporting it as their best OS, or did they ever? And how long did it take for Windows XP to be released to take its place?Is that or is that not a good sign? The faster major updates come out from Microsoft the harder it is for Crackers to get into out PCs. Would you prefer it to be slower?