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Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls

Posted by kdawson on from the linguini-or-angel-hair dept.

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."

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  1. Looks good. by bradsenff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those pictures look great.

    Suddenly I am hungry for spaghetti.

    mmmMmm Food.

    Damn. Windows *is* evil. It is making me fat!

    1. Re:Looks good. by Thrip · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just happened to think: Do you suppose it would be possible to refactor the Windows graph to make it look less tangled ...? Yes. The easiest way would be to throw out the Windows code base and start over with a set of competent programmers, then regenerate the graph.
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  2. nice pics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    what can I say? I'm impressed, you can click on the larger images and still not see a god damn thing

  3. A single page with a single picture? by fireman+sam · · Score: 3, Funny

    and I thought goatse was taken down.

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  4. I'm so confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  5. Re:Linux developers should take note.... by Fred+Ferrigno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, the solution is to code everything as a single function. Then the graph will look very nice and tidy.

  6. Re:Pudding graph by Rycross · · Score: 4, Funny
    Quote from the article:

    This second image is of a Windows Server running IIS.

    You are wrong.
  7. Re:Complete FUD by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course DOS is more secure than Linux. It doesn't do networking...

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  8. that's the path of chairs at a MS board meeting by swschrad · · Score: 4, Funny

    write to steveb@microsoft.com, I'm sure he'll let you have the video ;)

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  9. Re:Vista by Fnord666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where is the Vista version?
    They're waiting for additional funding for the ink.
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  10. Re:Poster? by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, spaghetti... obey your noodly master.

    Next thing you'll be talking about is global warming, then pirates, and the love of Him that is noodly.

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