Linux

[jacklanister]

Better for software programming?
O_o

[The Unintelligible]

Why do you wonder? You raise a legitimate question, but with no context surrounding it it's hard to really pinpoint an answer.

[Artificial]

Better for software programming?
O_o

You need to provide a context (like The Unintelligible said). Programming is too broad. It's obviously not going to be better for all forms of programming. What if you're programming a piece of software to be deployed on a Windows machine? It would make more sense to build and test it on Windows.

[Butts]

Linux are non-profitable, non proprietary operating systems. They come in a wide range of distro's. I personally prefer fedora. If you're new to linux, then I'd suggest you get the all-look and no-features "ubuntu". I've never used ubuntu, and never will. Your call. I'm a little stallman over what I choose, lol.

[The Unintelligible]

Linux is actually the kernel - the "heart" of the operating system if you will - of the distributions like Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. These operating systems built off the kernel are known as distros.

Also I hate to be a grammar nazi but you mean *non.

My personal preferences are Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian. I also plan on trying Slackware out in the future if support/development continues for it.

[jacklanister]

Well, all of my hacker nerdy friends here in real life used linux or xp.
Reason why?

[The Unintelligible]

Well, all of my hacker nerdy friends here in real life used linux or xp.
Reason why?

They most likely aren't hackers. They probably used those operating systems because they make it easier to get a hold of '1337 haxing tools.'

[323]

They most likely aren't hackers. They probably used those operating systems because they make it easier to get a hold of '1337 haxing tools.'

Well, you have to think for a minute:

Lets pretend your an Ethical Hacker, or Network Security Analyst. Linux/Unix allows you to write extremely fast bash scripts for doing automated tasks that might take an entire day to write in C (Though bash and python combined are more effective then either bash, python, or C alone (provided it's for a quick script. For a full-blown program, use C)), and it offers a broad range of tools from port scanners to firewall mappers to remote shell tools. Though, if you're looking for "31337 H4X0R1NG T00LZ" like you said, you'll probably find the person using a Windows OS because it has all those sooper cool hax0r tools from HackForums like blind SQL injectors and stuff. If you were serious about website security, and say you did web application security for a job, you wouldn't be using those tools - you would be using something like Havij, which, coincidentally, is available under *nix as well as windows. This, I believe, is why *nix operating systems are more used by computer security analysts. Though, if you see a leet hax0r using it, he probably either dual boots with windows, has a windows virtual machine, or uses ubuntu and doesn't know how to do anything on the sh terminal or anything else.

As to why your leet friends would use XP over 7 I do not know. Maybe they're just too lazy to install 7, or they don't want to loose all of their "leet tools" or something? Fuck if I know.

[The Unintelligible]

Lets pretend your an Ethical Hacker, or Network Security Analyst. Linux/Unix allows you to write extremely fast bash scripts for doing automated tasks that might take an entire day to write in C (Though bash and python combined are more effective then either bash, python, or C alone (provided it's for a quick script. For a full-blown program, use C)), and it offers a broad range of tools from port scanners to firewall mappers to remote shell tools.

Bash is available on platforms other than Linux, including but not limited to OS X and Windows. So is Python.

I don't see your point. Real ethical hackers/security experts write their own tools.

Though, if you're looking for "31337 H4X0R1NG T00LZ" like you said, you'll probably find the person using a Windows OS because it has all those sooper cool hax0r tools from HackForums like blind SQL injectors and stuff. If you were serious about website security, and say you did web application security for a job, you wouldn't be using those tools - you would be using something like Havij, which, coincidentally, is available under *nix as well as windows. This, I believe, is why *nix operating systems are more used by computer security analysts. Though, if you see a leet hax0r using it, he probably either dual boots with windows, has a windows virtual machine, or uses ubuntu and doesn't know how to do anything on the sh terminal or anything else.

Uh, BackTrack. Checkmate.

[jacklanister]

Go away, okay?

[The Unintelligible]

wat .

[Hater]

wat .

Your answer was not valid to him , soo he asked you to leave .

[The Unintelligible]

Your answer was not valid to him , soo he asked you to leave .

idk who his comment was directed to. I think it was addressed to everyone since no one gave him a definite answer or rather what he was looking for.

Either way, valid =/= relevant. So your post was invalid.

Oh and @ your PM, I'm pretty sure I don't know you. I haven't been on LG for too long. Didn't reply at first because I was too lazy.