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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."

Full story:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895...LNAV062207FEA1

CMoore

I would say linux is more secure at the moment mabye it will be resolved when sp1 arrives!

DaveW

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instinct46

When look at Vista and Linux you must also look at which version of Linux, I have XP, Debian & Slackware running on my system. Linux is like windows at some point, if the administrator(root) user install extra software this may potentially open up new security issues. In fresh installations of a Linux operating system and a Vista one, Linux has won.

vpsville

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.

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