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Date: Tue Oct 4 14:13:11 2005 From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl) Subject: Bigger burger roll needed On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:51:34AM -0400, security curmudgeon wrote: > Fine, it isn't PR spin. But, compare this to Unix. How many times do you > run user-land, 3rd party applications, that cause a kernel panic? They don't, but they don't in Windows either: We're talking about *drivers* doing this. If an application causes a BSOD by its own account, then it's a bug in the OS. > And the first few years of Windows 95 saw many, *many* BSODs that were due > to Microsoft code. That lead to the general impression and sentiment you > see today. No disagreement with this. Steve -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | +1 714 544-6561 www.unixwiz.net | Tustin, Calif. USA | Microsoft MVP | steve@...xwiz.net
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