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RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)Posted Apr 10, 2008 18:23 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb) by rmunn Parent article: RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)
The whole article is made of presenting the Linux argument first and then the Windows argument to counter that later. The number of exploits is also closely tied to the efficiency of patching the issues. Many copies of Windows are unpatched due to them being illegal. They also typically have much more third-party software that does not get updated through the standard system update mechanism.
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RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb) Posted Apr 11, 2008 2:00 UTC (Fri) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link] This is an often overlooked part of Linux security - having a central repository from which to automatically get security updates for all applications. There's no technical reason why third-party apps can't be made available through the repository system, too.
RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb) Posted Apr 11, 2008 3:17 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link] There aren't any other reasons either, an obvious example would be adobe's yum repo. for flash/acroread. Well unless you count that people are used to terrible quality in the entire experience, from their non-free software.
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