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Story: Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows'
Posted by: Matt Webber (Thursday 5 January 2006, 6:53 PM)
These statistics mean nothing - one of the biggest funders of the US govt. and in particular the bush campaign is Microsoft - all this represents is Microsoft buying their own statistics and touting them through channels like ZD. I expect we will see more of this in the run up to Vista launch and MS try to convince the world to upgrade yet again.
Both Linux and Unix (and flavours thereof like OSX) are fantastically more secure than windows, not only that, you can try some of them out for free to see for yourself.
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Story: Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows'
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These statistics mean nothing - one of the biggest... Matt Webber -
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Can't reporters do MATH???? Geez, they're su... Anonymous
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What matters isn't the amount of vulnera... Anonymous -
So ALL UNIX like operating systems combined had ab... Walt Reed
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So you count Mandriva, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Ge... Oldator
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I don't know why any self-respecting journali... Clay Garland
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OS, Web Server and Hosting History for www.us-cert... Philip
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What the article fails to mention that anytime new... Anonymous
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