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

["Ian Semmel" <anyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"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.
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> | 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.