On Monday 18 November 2002 12:38, Tim Wright wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Zane Gilmore wrote: > > REPORT SAYS LINUX HAS MORE SECURITY FLAWS THAN WINDOWS > > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19996.html
I agree. Plus, with an MS OS they aren't counting all the 3rd party apps that most people run (cmon, who runs *only* ms software on windows? not likely). On my linux box, basically all the apps are "open source" - so no wonder there might be one or two more security flaws. "all open source software" vs "all proprietary software" might be fairer methinks. $0.02 Gareth > > Not really. There were more reported flaws in open source operating > systems (19) than in windows (10). So, there were more combined flaws > reported (about twice as many) in Linux (all varients), BSD (all > varients), and others than Windows. Also didn't say anything about the > actual severity of flaws. > > Doesn't bother me. It's a lot easier to report a GNU/Linux flaw than a > Windows flaw...you have to source to figure out what's going wrong. > > tim > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBPdgofAccL5A6x/wfEQLk8QCgll7wIwYw1UwsiTL66PfveEd2DbYAnR+e > CZLEYyMozdUu9FCYI3MZRzoc > =ZmsD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
