Re: [News] The Security Advantage of GNU/Linux Over Windows Explained

[Philip <none@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Semmel wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> > Keeping Windows Secure: A Difficult Task
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> > | Then We Have Linux. When it comes to software updates, popular Linux
> > | distributions cannot be touched with respect to keeping the 
> > applications
> > | up-to-date. Any worthwhile distribution provides some method of 
> > keeping the
> > | system updated, in addition to the software installed on it.
> > |
> > | The beauty of this is the lack of third-party software to make this 
> > happen.
> > | Because most of the software the user is going to use will be 
> > provided from
> > | included software repositories, the ease of keeping the entire system
> > | up-to-date goes unmatched for an out-of-the-box OS install.
> Seeing as how most of the software was written in the 1970's (or cloned 
> from software written in the 1970's), this is hardly a major feature.
Nonsense. I was there. PDP and DEC assembler does not port well that well