On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BY THE NUMBERS: COMPARING WINDOWS SECURITY TO LINUX > Linux enthusiasts extol the security virtues of their OS, especially in > light of recent high-profile Windows vulnerabilities. But a comparison > of the number of reported vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux from > Bugtraq reveals some surprising results. > http://click.online.com/Click?q=c4-Iy4lQ0WmtYFUN2FuHZ6N-2nfudRR
What he did not take into account was there are thousands of software available for a specific distribution compared to Windows 2000 which has say 50+ (ballpark figure. Dunno know the exact packages avail. for win2k. could be more.) software bundled on the OS. Statistically speaking, Linux should be applauded that it has such a low bug count compared to windows! If that's the way he counts bugs, we can create a minimal distro, just a kernel and a few utilities. We can expect a handful of bugs in say, 2002. That would be good for PR stunt. But that distro would not be incredibly useful. Bottomline, unfair comparison of just counting bugs in *nix and windows. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, CSA http://andre.lasaltech.com Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
