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EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-better-than-the-rest dept.

daria42 writes "Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."

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  1. Linux has lousy security by Animats · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Linux security hasn't improved in years. It's still about where UNIX was in the 1980s. This looks good only because Microsoft is so awful.

    What's needed is to get behind NSA Security-Enhanced Linux and push. The key apps that are regularly attacked (mail, web servers, browsers, databases, DNS) all need to be modified to work as multi-process programs with small trusted parts and big untrusted parts. Trying to patch monolithic trusted apps undergoing ongoing enhancement is never going to work.

    So quit gloating and start coding, Linux people.

  2. Re:Slashdot? by JonathanX · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, and it's probably petty of me, but I have a hard time getting past a messenger who uses a lesser known word like "forfend" in an attempt to draw out the grammar nazis. Such behavior is an outstandingly reliable touchstone for excessive feelings of intellectual superiority, demonstrating an absolute and fundamental lack of charm that results in a loss of effectiveness due to the immediate departure of the intended audience.

    If such a person works in another company, I'll ignore him. If he works in my company, I'll avoid him. I'll avoid him. If, God forbid, he works for me, I'll quickly and visibly out him as an intellectual charlatan and terminate him immediately.

    So, here's a balanced and well-considered opinion: I can't hear his message because his asshat nature covers the ass he's clearly talking out of.