Re: FN-FORUM: Best Linux Distribution?

date posted 18th August 2004 23:15

Richard Lowe wrote:
> Unix was designed as a server operating system foremost

True, but Linux != Unix ;) (pedants hat on there)

> And the registry is a superb idea.

I think you might anger the Dom with that one ;) And I'll take issue
too.. how is it a superb idea?

How is hiding configuration paramters and other information in a
non-human-readable format that you cannot easily query without
specialist tools, that grows to a humungous size and (certainly in older
versions of Windows) slowly corrupts itself, any better than storing
configuration parameters in human-readable plain text files?

If I want to know what last wrote to a configuration file on Linux I
have about two places to check - /etc and ~/, I can easily tell which
programs configuration was updated most recently with a simple ls command..

In the registry, I can't easily tell when it was last written to (if at
all, without very specialist tools) and I have absolutely no chance of
determining which *part* of the registry was last written to - making it
infinitely easier for nasty programs like virii & trojans to hide
themselves..


Discuss ;)

Aaron