Bad Linux

[yarddog]

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Doesn't Windows base most virii on visual basic or C++ anyway? Wouldn't that 
explain some of it?


On Thursday 17 May 2001 03:50 pm, Brian Cluff wrote about Re: Bad Linux:
> > "Mean time to patch" meaning when a person applies the patch to the
> > affected computer?  If yes, I seriously question the "Windows: Overnight"
> > statement.  I even question it if it means to when the patch is
> > available. Overnight is baloney, IMO.
>
> The problem with comparing linux to windows is that places too often
> compare windows itself with no apps on it to an entire distro where 98% of
> all the security holes get patched within minutes and the other 5 percent
> are games or something else that really doesn't matter all the much for a
> server and the are either not being supported or just tell people it will
> be fixed in the next version.  Meanwhile it shows up on the numbers as
> never being patched bringing the avarage of everything else down.
>     If you you compare windows against just a very stripped down version of
> linux so that you have equal functionality on both sides, I would bet the
> linux would come with  flying colors,  or compare a windows machine loaded
> with all the server software and other programs and all the bugs and
> security holes that machines has to an equivenent machine running linux and
> the security holes that goes with that machine.  I would bet that linux
> still comes out on top.
>
> It's really not fair when you have to factor in holes for multiple versions
> of software that can't even run at the same time (sendmail, postfix,
> wu-ftpd, proftpd... etc etc) that often come with a distro.
> Plus the fact that the often lump all security holes found in all distro in
> the "linux" catagory, often times counting the same security hole more than
> once.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
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