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#1 2005-02-11 20:07:47

greggh
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Registered: 2005-01-26
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Mr.Softy at it again - Windows is Safer Than Linux

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/11/1413 … 18&tid=106

"Mike Nash, Microsoft's Chief Security Executive, has made claims that Windows is more secure than Linux. In a recent online chat, he staunchly defended Microsoft's record on security, basing part of his argument on how Windows Server 2003's 15 patches in the past year are far less than what RedHat or SuSE have had to endure."

--One post on /. pointed out that patches comapison is not really honest...

"apples and oranges really. the 15 vulnerabilities for windows are to the core and system services. the 78 vulerabilities of suse include packages that aren't critical to system operation

a fair comparison would be only counting the patches to the kernel (~5 ?), critical software you can't remove (not sure), and i'd say apache (~ 2-3 ?), and then only the really critical ones (not in useless features that no one use and are disabled by default) (0)"


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#2 2005-02-11 20:59:31

kill
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Registered: 2004-09-30
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Re: Mr.Softy at it again - Windows is Safer Than Linux

Already a thread about this. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=9933

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#3 2005-02-11 21:08:17

greggh
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Re: Mr.Softy at it again - Windows is Safer Than Linux

Sorry about the duplicate post. I did a search for "microsoft" before I posted... but nothing about it came up. I should have searched for "windows".


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#4 2005-02-11 22:10:29

skoal
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Registered: 2004-03-23
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Re: Mr.Softy at it again - Windows is Safer Than Linux

greggh wrote:

[...]I should have searched for "windows".

At least in these Arch forums, you would have returned better results using keywords like "evil", "a$$hole", "monopoly", "skoal", or any combination of the four...

By the way,

Don't worry about redundant posts, I do it all the time...

Furthermore,

Don't be concerned about redundant posts, I do it quite often...

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