[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Statistics can be taken to mean whatever you like. This doesn't seem to > take account of the severity of particular vulnerabilities but I still > thought other Sluggers may find it interesting. > http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20260847,00.htm
yes. Unfortunately the article just uses the number of bugs reported to Bugtraq, This tells us little about the security of either OS. Some of those bugs would have been found before exploitation and some may not even have an exploit for them yet. Thats goes for both OS's. You also need to take into account the severity of the bug, does it give user level access or root access or does it just crash a program? The numbers of bugs on Bugtraq is just that - numbers. Little can be drawn from it except that it has managed to fill a page on zdnet on a quiet day :-) Mike Will go back to reading www.kuro5hin.org :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
