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Re: [News] Counting Vulnerabilities, Linux Kernel a Winner

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.

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