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Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls
cgrayson recommends Richard Stiennon's blog on ZDNet — a post titled Why Windows is less secure than Linux shows a compelling graphical comparison between system calls on the two operating systems. The blogger tips Sana Security for the images. Quoting: "In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure... [T]hese images... are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up [the same] single page of [HTML] with a single picture."
Where can I get a high res version of that image to print out poster size? That's great!
Those pictures look great.
Suddenly I am hungry for spaghetti.
mmmMmm Food.
Damn. Windows *is* evil. It is making me fat!
what can I say? I'm impressed, you can click on the larger images and still not see a god damn thing
and I thought goatse was taken down.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Windows is less sucure because more blimps are firing more laser beams at other blimps in its picture than in linux's picture. ??? Wouldn't the larger swarm of blimbs with more lasers make it more secure it has the better army?
Obviously, the solution is to code everything as a single function. Then the graph will look very nice and tidy.
This second image is of a Windows Server running IIS.
You are wrong.
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Connection too slow for X forwarding? Try "ssh -CX user@host"
Corporate Linux Fanboy: "As you can see here Gentlemen, the Linux web server has far less tubes going everywhere, which means the information travels a shorter distance through these tubes."
Board: "Oooohhh. Ahhhhh. Tubes..." *nod nod*
Corporate Linux Fanboy: "Now as we look at the Microsoft version of the same exact thing, you can see that the tubes snake every which way with no sense of order. Chaos ensues, and the tubes are tangled every which way. Obviously, less tubes means better."
Corporate Microsoft Fanboy: "Your Mom has more tubes!"
Of course DOS is more secure than Linux. It doesn't do networking...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I have prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for guidance about these graphs, and yea, verily did He appear before me and said "What? No sauce?" Then he Frowned his Terrible Frown, and did drown my monitor in Parmesan, bellowing "Away, demons!" and vanished.
But IIS is probably one of their best products, and most secure as far as security bulletins go.
I think the rest has been covered ad nauseum, as far as C versus C++ procedure calls.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
write to steveb@microsoft.com, I'm sure he'll let you have the video ;)
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
It seems clear which OS is preferred by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I feel safe knowing that my web server is doing homage to His Noodly Goodness every time I refresh a page. After all, what is really going to help secure your site: a bunch of fancy-smancy kernel programmers or the divine protection of His noodly appendage?