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Subject: Re: post

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Philip Zuvanich

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Date Posted: 07:40:15 02/06/05 Sun
In reply to: michael 's message, "Re: post" on 00:55:11 02/06/05 Sun

Ok, so educate me some more.

My job has me using 3Ds max mostly. I'm not a gamer, but it's high end gamer modeling and animation software (not what I'm using it for), and I'd also like to use it at home. I also use other software that's the standard stuff on pc's and macs, like the adobe suite, and AutoCAD Architectural desktop. I'm forced to use windows at work, but I'd be open to using linux at home.

What I want to know is... is the lack of virus attacks due to linux being less popular making attacks less effective and therefore less attractive for the attackers? Also, I'm thinking of upgrading to a faster multiprocessor machine at home, and partitioning the hard drive so I can run two OS's, so I could brouse the net using linux, and use windows to run my software that linux doesn't yet support.

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michael
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Date Posted: 02:08:28 02/13/05 Sun

I thought I'd responded to this previously. I must have done the initial post and not remembered to confirm it.

In any case, I'm sure that part of the reason for there being fewer attacks on linux systems is the relatively small percentage of linux systems. That said, the linux system has a much more secure design that makes them less susceptable to viruses. As a linux user (not root), you may have execute permissions for a program but no write permissions for it. That means that if you download a virus and it attempts to corrupt an executable program it will fail unless the user who downloaded the virus has write permissions for the targeted program. In the same way a virus that actually infects one user is not able to be spread to any other user files because of the file permissions.

Incidentally, some of the most powerful graphics rendering systems in use today are Unix and linux systems. Pixar's movie "Toy Story" for example was created on Sun Solaris systems.

Here's an open source application you might be interested in (probably you know more about this than I since you're in the biz):

www.blender3d.org

I believe there are versions of this that run on windows as well as various flavors of unix/linux.

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