Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 02:53:02 06/27/04
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On June 27, 2004 at 05:00:53, Bo Persson wrote: >On June 26, 2004 at 21:19:46, Peter Skinner wrote: > >> >>This is just one of many "Windows" reasons I am switching to Linux. > >Why don't you check out some of the more recent security problems with one >popular Linux distribution? > >https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3ws-errata-security.html > > >Bo Persson This is a bit misleading, as most of these vulnerabilities don't relate to Linux itself, but to software distributed with Linux. Yes, I know you said "distribution", but I believe it's worth drawing people's attention to this fact. Whenever Microsoft talks about Linux security problems, they always talk about applications as well as the kernel. I think a fairer comparison would be to take the (linux kernel + XFree + kde/gnome) security problems versus Windows security problems. I'd take Linux *any* day by that measure. For one thing, I've not heard of a security problem with Linux which could mess up with *my* machine just because I visited a web-page. The other advantage of Linux is that if my Linux supplier proves to be too slow at fixing security problems, I could always find another supplier and start using their distribution. Or I could find someone with the necessary skills and pay them to fix my problem for me. But that's a different argument and this is *miles* off topic. Andrew
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