Hi,
Does anyone know why oralux and grml1.1 work, but grml 2008.11 and ubuntu 8.10 do not work on my computer? Why do some Linux distributions work, but others do not?
There is no general answer. Depends on your hardware and the distribution.
or is there no definite answer to this? Also, how frequently or how susceptible is Linux to getting viruses and rootkits and trogens and worms?
Josh
As far as I am aware there have been 4 known linux viruses in about 15 years. People do try to gain control of your PC (happens to all windows users within seconds of going online) but this is harder to do in linux because the code is open source. There is a whole world community constantly looking for weaknesses. Most get corrected before the bad guys even think of them.
Moss