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Old 06-22-2019, 11:30 AM
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Linux is used on the systems that do most of the heavy lifting that you never see. It is the OS on the entertainment systems on aircraft. It is ubiquitous.

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Originally Posted by rde3036 View Post
Hacking a Linux system is no harder than hacking any other operating system. The reason it is not done often is because hacker's write malware to attack the most common system which is currently Windows. Linux is used on a relatively small number of of computer systems. That will change if self driving cars or other products are equipped with Linux. The bigger the population of Linux systems the bigger the target for malware.