[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Opinions need to be supported to have any value. When you set personal bias > aside, facts are a simple google away.
Indeed. The author of this letter did not include the entire sub-title of the article: "US-CERT found more vulnerabilities in Linux and Unix systems than in Windows in 2005, but that doesn't mean Windows is more secure." and it would be of interest as to what the study considers to be a "Linux" distribution, which normally contains multiple mail carriers, multiple web browsers, multiple office packages, all of which may have a vulnerability but may not be applicable in a given customer's environment; versus the "Windows" operating system that is basically useless as it comes, but has 812 vulnerabilities. By the time you add Microsoft Office and various other applications to bring the Microsoft platform to the same functionality level as "Linux", you might find that Microsoft has as many or more vulnerabilities. Also, the author of the letter did not mention the report by a security firm further down the page which stated that of the 124 security advisories in Windows XP that 29 remain unpatched. And of the commercial Linux vendors that are affected by the same level of security advisories, Red Hat had patched 98 of 99, and SuSE had patched 91 of 91. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Opinions need to be supported to have any value. When you set personal bias > aside, facts are a simple google away. Yes indeed. Sometimes facts take a little reading and thinking too. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
