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Linux Distributions Respond to Forrester

Posted by michael on from the opinions-bought-and-sold dept.

dave writes "GNU/Linux vendors Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SUSE have joined together to give a common statement about the Forrester report entitled "Is Linux more Secure than Windows?". Despite the report's claim to incorporate a qualitative assessment of vendor reactions to serious vulnerabilities, it treats all vulnerabilities are equal, regardless of their risk to users. As a result, the conclusions drawn by Forrester have extremely limited real-world value for customers assessing the practical issue of how quickly serious vulnerabilities get fixed."

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  1. None by SkaterGeek · · Score: -1, Troll

    Muhahah FP

    1. Re:None by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You failed it to a poop study.

  2. Is Linux more Secure than Windows? by pantycrickets · · Score: -1, Troll

    In short: No.

  3. Gee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is no bias here, is there, slashbots?

  4. Re:Vandalize this article! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't like the GNAA, but the first part of Punjabi Extreme is interesting.

  5. You get what you pay for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not only is Linux hard to use, it has a shoddy security record. You get what you pay for...

  6. The report and it's value by jd · · Score: 3, Troll
    Let's start by noting the existance of SARA and TARA for Unix, but not for Windows. It's hard to scan a box, locally, if you don't have the tools to do so. It's therefore correspondingly hard to fix problems under Windows.


    Then, there is the relevence of bugs. SE-Linux makes many otherwise serious glitches a mere nuicense. As do other modules in the LSM.


    There is no chroot() in Windows, to the best of my knowledge. This also changes the severity of a bug from catastrophic to irritant, in Unix.


    Finally, Nessus and SAINT are more often used to scan Unix boxes than Windows ones.

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  7. Why worry about this ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I can't even use my digital camera with Linux!!