Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 01:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The problem is that so much of the system is opaque with undocumented 
> 'features' that are just waiting to be exploited.  It's not that the 
> users are clueless, it is that there is no way for them to have a
> clue.

Hear, hear...

> How many people know the minimal set of ports needed to be open  for 
> Active Directory and Exchange server to work and what is supposed to 
> happen on each, for example?

Or how in hell to get MSN messenger to work through your firewall, or
any other number of things that you need to get to work with your
system, but come with no more information than an instruction to see
your system adminstrator (who has no information about it, anyway).

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