[Gambas-user] article for devx.com

[Nelson Ferraz]

Stibs,

Here are some comments on your article:

> [[9. Anti-virus scanning for all protocols. Although users don't have to be as concerned (presently) with email viruses on Linux, it's critical for Linux mail servers to protect Windows clients. Users also need solutions that guard against malevolent code delivered via HTTP and FTP.]]
> 
> As stated, the virus scanning isn't that important for Linux itself yet. With Linux gaining marketshare on the desktop this situation will perhaps change. 

I often hear that we'll see more Linux viruses as Linux become popular.

If we think that popular open source projects like Apache (which more 
than 56% of market share) has a best security history than a proprietary 
product like Microsoft IIS, we'll see that there's no direct relation 
between security problems and popularity.

On the other hand, you should at least mention that Microsoft recently 
bought and halted a Linux antivirus from a Romenian company (GeCAD).

You'll find more details here:

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1141750

And here:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/11/HNrav_1.html

> [[4. Mass deployment/enterprise admin tools. Although Linux ships with many administration tools, it needs enterprise-level tools for managing desktops and servers, pushing upgrades, lockdown and refresh, and performing backups.]]
> 
> I haven't much experience with mass deployments and enterprise admin tools since my clients are small companies up to 20 PC's. One training center I look after runs 200 desktop machines on Windows in the classrooms but that's the exception. Though I know SuSE and RedHat offer in their Enterprise Server distribution tools for desktop management, administration, software distribution and all the addressed tasks. I'm sure a SuSE expert can tell more about this, here is at least the product description page of SuSE's Enterprise Server distribution- http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server/sles/index.html.

Linux is _much_ easier to admin in large scale than Windows, because 
it's more scriptable, well-documented, and all configuration files are 
plain text.

Linux is perhaps a bit more difficult to manage in a single machine - 
but once it's configured, it will run forever.

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Nelson

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