On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:36:29 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 2006 is a bad year for all software, Linux included
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| It has proven to be the year of living dangerously, if you are using a
>| computer that's attached too the Internet - not so much if you're using a
>| Linux-based machine.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| The majority of the vulnerabilities were attributed to Microsoft
>| operating systems, which racked up 871, while Unix operating systems
>| accounted for 701 vulnerabilities. The Linux kernel itself came out
>| fairly clean, with only 38 vulnerabilities directly affecting the
>| kernel.
> `----
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2006/1016linux1.html
>
> Finally... a study that sets apart applications from the operating system
> (unlike a misleading study last year--that which included packages like
> Apache and had vulnerabilities replicated and aggregated over several
> distributions)
>
> Also today:
>
> Internet Security Systems provides server security protection
> for the latest Linux and Solaris operating systems
>
> http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=25961&CategoryID=1
Funny how when these studies support Linux, they're lauded, but they're
bullshit when they support Windows.
Hypocrites.
|
|
