RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)

RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)

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.

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.