On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Marc Lavallée wrote:
Well, even in diversified niches, you usually have three (or even just two) major players which together are used in well over 50% of installations.
RedHat, Debian, Suse and Mandrake? The advantage of using Gnu/Linux is that even among the same distributions there enough diversity and versions to almost discourage virus writers.
I'd expect linux viruses to _not_ depend on libc.so nor any other library, and whenever a program only uses the kernel interface (or is linked statically), its portability is severely increased. It only has to be compatible with the kernel, and in the case of GNU/Linux, the Linux kernel has quite a bit of a monopoly in the kernel business. ;-)
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju