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Date Posted: 02:08:28 02/13/05 Sun
In reply to: Philip Zuvanich 's message, "Re: post" on 07:40:15 02/06/05 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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