Comments on: Windows: fewer security flaws http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7518 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7518/comment-page-1#comment-28951 Reader's Write Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:55:18 +0000 #comment-28951 I mostly agree with you, but I don't think the number of Linux flaws is that big. First of all, WTF? There is no f*cking way there can be that many flaws in the Linux kernel. Not by a long shot. In external software yes, but in the kernel, the part that *is* Linux, there surely can't be that many flaws. External software shouldn't count, only the operating system itself, the kernel. If you count the thousands of programs included together with the kernel on standard distributions, no wonder you find flaws. But the kernel itself: Nope. It's safe compared to other OSs. Even safer than *BSD kernels if you enable the SELinux (Security Enhanced) modules. I mostly agree with you, but I don’t think the number of Linux flaws is that big.
First of all, WTF? There is no f*cking way there can be that many flaws in the Linux kernel. Not by a long shot. In external software yes, but in the kernel, the part that *is* Linux, there surely can’t be that many flaws. External software shouldn’t count, only the operating system itself, the kernel. If you count the thousands of programs included together with the kernel on standard distributions, no wonder you find flaws. But the kernel itself: Nope. It’s safe compared to other OSs. Even safer than *BSD kernels if you enable the SELinux (Security Enhanced) modules.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7518/comment-page-1#comment-28949 Reader's Write Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:13:07 +0000 #comment-28949 1. Most of the Linux flaws for *nix are minor in comparison to the Windows flaws 2. The *nix flaws come from a wide variety of operating systems from a wide selection of vendors such as BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc. All of these flaws are totalled and group together for the specific purpose of makeing one specific company (Microsoft) look good. 3. These "Operating system" flaws also include flaws in applications that are not operating system specific. Which company's operating systems spread the most viruses, trojans, worms, and other malware? You guessed it Microsoft!!!! Yes, Linux/Unix may look worse statistically, but Windows looks worse in real life!!!! 1. Most of the Linux flaws for *nix are minor in comparison to the Windows flaws

2. The *nix flaws come from a wide variety of operating systems from a wide selection of vendors such as BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc. All of these flaws are totalled and group together for the specific purpose of makeing one specific company (Microsoft) look good.

3. These “Operating system” flaws also include flaws in applications that are not operating system specific.

Which company’s operating systems spread the most viruses, trojans, worms, and other malware? You guessed it Microsoft!!!! Yes, Linux/Unix may look worse statistically, but Windows looks worse in real life!!!!

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