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Some of these technologies will stop a flawed application from functioning, reducing the application's reliability but increasing the security and reliability of the overall system
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@Jgimmi , thanks again !!
concerning Tanenbaum's statement , look here please :
http://lwn.net/Articles/467852/
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If you want to change the memory manager, only one module is affected. Changing it in Linux is far more complicated because it is all spaghetti down there.
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as for Mac .. here is 1 reason why I mentioned it :
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00778.html
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/q...ie-miller/2941
People can easily get infatuated with Mac .. it's like Pandora's charm .. even Larry Wall courted the OS : "Apple has always been, tried to be, at least, the arbiter of good taste" .
as far as usability is concerned .. I confess Mac is super-easy super-user-friendly (yet a GUI-jailed user-friendliness ) .. that it allows fast data transfer (usb , firewire .. ) .. that it offers a superfast (but also super-expolitable) Safari .. that it has a charming GUI .. Yet .. for some , an fvwm with an xsetroot -solid springgreen would outmatch all GUIs ..
Diogenes once said : " What a lot of things I don't need .. " :-)