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Originally Posted by ho$ter
I found the results of a recent study quite surprising:
In the first six months of the Vista life cycle, Microsoft has released four major security bulletins that address 12 total vulnerabilities affecting Windows Vista.
In comparison, the most popular Linux distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, was swamped with 129 publicly disclosed bugs in shipping components, 40 of them "High Severity."
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The number of patches is not to be confused with the number of vulnerabilities. The more patches, the safer an OS is. Also, Linux patches address applications and the OS, whereas Microsoft patches only address the OS.
If you counted all the windows applications out there with all their bugs (mostly unpatched) Windows would have far more vulnerabilities than Linux.