Talk to Europe about that one.

I figured it out. You're a shit fetishist fanboy. Probably a furfag, too. My apologies to actual shit fetishist furries if I am wrong. Ps, get cancer and die. And merry christmas.

I'm not playing this game all night. Go play tuxracer or some shit.

They do if they are rendering something or using CUDA. Not entirely sure what I would apologize for, I haven't even gotten insulting yet.

When Julie188 gets those specs, he/she/it will put up an awesome SF.net or Berlios or Google Code page with the specs and they'll shit out a 0.11a build that mostly compiles, then it will sit there until the specs rot out of relevance.

Yes, hardware vendors do have an incentive to support Linux... if they have their hands in the enterprise pie. Can't very well run your big, expensive Linux cluster (with big, expensive support contract) on Brand X hardware without hardware support. Desktops aren't servers, stop pretending they are.

Maybe if all 50k of your users ponied up a buck or five in earnest money they could pay Netflix to create a client for them.

That's because they fucking aren't first rate consumers. The desktop Linux community seems to be made up mostly of contrarians and cheapskates that feel they are entitled to everything at zero cost and with zero strings. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I learned how UNIX works with Linux, the skills are invaluable, but for fucks sake, these companies put their resources where the people are, and that isn't on desktop Linux.

Try a supported platform, you'll have better luck.

They probably did. It's a press release, and a one-way cryptographic hash is close enough to "encrypted" and a helluva lot shorter and more understandable to a non-pedantic audience.

And would the attacker who was pretty determined to hit this particular target stop just because they ran Linux? No, but you'd probably not hear too much about the exploits that got patched.

I wouldn't cry if the entire region nuked itself into giant molerats, to be honest. People die all the damn time, why not a bunch of angry people? The land would be poisoned and worthless, but the same set of assholes have been fighting over it for the last 6000 or so years, so it can die, too.

The target was workstations that program embedded systems. Why the hell wouldn't you program your general purpose motor drives on a general purpose operating system?

That was sarcasm. I am not a fan of either of the parties here.

If you read about how this thing works, the real payload is a rootkit for a motor drive plc built by an Iranian manufacturer and spinning in the range needed to enrich uranium. It was also targetted at the desktop software designed to program said motor drive, which is windows. If they were running Linux, I'm sure there are a few zero day sploits out there suitible for hiding a rootkit dropper. The people that made this thing had time, information, legitimate driver signing certificates, and resources. I doubt there are many platforms that can deal with such a determined attacker.