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6 Months On, Vista Security Still Besting Linux
Martin writes "Great report on security vulnerabilities for MS/Linux/OS X. This is a revised version of the one Jeff Jones did back on March 21: Windows Vista — 90 Day Vulnerability Report. This time he did what the Linux community had asked. Everyone complained that he did the report based on a full Linux distro including optional components, not on just a base OS install. So this time he did both; Vista still came out on top. I was shocked that Apple was even on the list as I believed all those Mac commercials!"
The site's slashdotted already. Was it running vista?
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
ok make me please a universal SINGLE way of installing apps,
./configure && make && make install nonsense or a miriad of package managers (yast, smart, yum etc etc)
i want to be able to install programs easily across ALL distros EASILY (like people do on windows now)
none of that
you see on windows ur guaranteed your app will work across all versions on linux forget about it
Cancel or allow?
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
It's blame shifting.
It's easy to implement some "security" that is based on asking the user a second time whenever he moves the mouse if he REALLY wanted to move the mouse, and blame him should something bad come out of this movement. So a user getting a rootkit slipped under his ass can be blamed on the user clicking yes, not that there is no distinct difference between user and system space. A trojan's success can be blamed on the user clicking ok, not on debug functions being available on a release system.
That's no security, that's bullshitting the user into thinking it's his fault.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And all the frothing savage Linux fanbois come out the wood work to stomp them in the dirt. ya know, you guys can be "Hip" and outside the norm, but until my 60 year-old mother-in-law can use you OS, it might was well be Greek Calculus! You guys will never get it, this survey may be crap, but it doesnt matter, Windows invented the wheel and unless Linux starts making an equivilant of a flying car, they will always be second fiddle.
I bet more people are using Vista than Linux. If you remove all servers (personal included) and only count desktop installs I bet linux has a smaller install base than windows 95.