-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 23:17, Josh wrote: > > Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. > > > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp > > The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in > the amount of applications that ship with Linux vs. the amount of > applications that ship with windows. They did factor in at least > some non-essential Linux apps (apache was mentioned), but nothing > was said about the exploits in 3rd party windows applications. My > guess would be that the numbers would be a lot lower for Linux if > they looked at ONLY the comparable applications that ship with each > OS or a lot higher for windows if they looked at comparable windows > applications. And I type this from a windows box, isn't that's > stupid. > Yhere's a niggling deja vu about this article. I'm certain I have seen it before, and that they did include a whole distro for linux, but only the os for windows. In fact, the report is as full of holes as windows itself, IIRC
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbkGjkFAvMr/nNX8RAoYEAJ9dq706RhGr2DqMpnlqUA4G416oRACdHcWv Y1N93fNG7m2DKgPbdk02eAk= =T1GC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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