On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:04:33 +0530, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com said:
The reason for this detailed description is to highlight that in Windows one simply runs the JRE exe and it is installed automatically.
Heavens. You have to download the exe manually from somewhere? or click on some untrusted source to get the JRE from?
% aptitude install sun-java5-jre or % aptitude install sun-java6-jre
(:-), for the humour impaired)
I did not rant about this as I thought that a solution will be in sight as time goes by. However when some people post ridiculous statements that anything the does not work in Linux is crap, this reaction is bound to happen and all the drawbacks of FOSS will come out. What is the use of FOSS if it does not get peoples' work done and in a reasonably fast installation time.
There is no computing environment where everything works perfectly. But in my experience, Debian does get the work done for me, which I can't get done otherwise, because either the functionality does not exist, or is too expensive, or can't be tailored to my needs.
How does one implement a non-bayesian OSB markov model Spam filtering on windows? How can one augment that with rules based checking, and perhaps a naive bayesian alternate? And how about adding selective grey listing? And SMTP time rejection of viruses?
On Debian, I use sendmail, mimedefang, spamassassin, clamav, and mailagent [0], and I have not discovered a false positive in over 30 months, and I get false negatives now at the rate of about 2 a week (700mails a day input -- [1]) -- and unsure messages of about 3-5/day, which I use to train the filters.
Seems like windows would let me down -- and windows has far more need of blocking the Spam.
Mind you, I am not saying that Debian would fit the needs of most people -- but the claim that closed source software gets things done and the free software community is always in catch-up mode is not something I can let go unchallenged.
manoj
[0]: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/categories/spam.html [1]: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/mail/