Hacker News Reader

I remember my first experience with Linux back in the early 90's -- once connected to the Internet that Redhat box was rooted almost immediately.

From my perspective, Windows doesn't seem to be less secure but it has a greater share of users who do stupid things.

View on HN

Maybe Redhat's configuration was at fault?

I have seen popular Linux distributions where interfaces are enabled and have programs listening by default.

I, the user, never asked for that.

This is one reason I do not use Linux distributions.

Too many assumptions about what the user wants.

You have to remember this was the 90's and it was a different time back then. I think there's a tendency to compare Windows in the 90s with how Linux is now. This was the same era as Mac OS 9 where a single application could still crash the entire system.

Exploiting common faults in Linux system software was pretty easy back then too.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com