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Well, pending on this source and how reliable it is (and what they consider a flaw?), is *nux really as "safe" out of the box as people claim? I did have a friend who got hard into linux fast and he did tell me that Linux is NO where as safe as what many Linux Guru's tout their O/S to be and Unix, i thought it was inpenetrable compared to windows....
I am not posting my thought to start a war, but all i ever hear is how much safer *nix is over windows.....
People do complain of windows updates but when i installed Fedora Core 4 - i had to download almost 300+ mb of updates...
I am not posting my thought to start a war, but all i ever hear is how much safer *nix is over windows.....
People do complain of windows updates but when i installed Fedora Core 4 - i had to download almost 300+ mb of updates...
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| 5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005 |
| from the better-to-find-them-than-not dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 31, @08:31 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/31/0812210 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers uncovered nearly 5,200
software vulnerabilities in 2005, almost 40 percent more than the number
discovered in 2004, according to [0]Washingtonpost.com. From the article:
'According to US-CERT...researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows
operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions of the Unix/Linux
operating systems (Mac included). An additional 2,058 flaws affected
multiple operating systems.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/31/0812210
Links:
0. http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/12/uscert_5198_sof.html#comments
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