On 3/31/08, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus+shape at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/3/31, Jean Christophe Andr? <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org>: > > > David Tremblay a ?crit : > > > > > Because everybody knows that linux is by far the best and the most > secure platform (.) > > > > > > > Comparing Windows, MacOS and Linux, yes, that's what is common knowledge. > > > > But if you put some other systems in the comparison, like OpenBSD, Linux > > may not be the absolutly most secure operating syst?me... > > OpenBSD is not a "desktop" OS. > A "Linux " OS runs the Linux as an OS, and > Mac OS runs FreeBSD as its OS.
Firstly, this is not true: MacOS is based on Mach (microkernel) and BSD 4.3. But that doesnt make MacOS microkernel at all, as they put a lot of stuffs into that layer then. Secondly, do you really think that this contest can prove that Linux/Ubuntu is more secure? Not quite, simply because a lot of attacks nowadays are multiple-platform. See this article. I completely agree with them. "A contest such as this is not a measure of relative security between operating systems. It's not an accurate barometer. ..... Just because the laptop -- a Sony running the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution of Linux -- was untouched doesn't mean that the operating system is any more secure than either Mac OS X or Windows Vista, both of which fell to attacks." http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9074102
