OT: Nix less secure than Windows.

[Thermodyne]

Imperator Fyron said:

And yeah, the list does seem to include a lot of beta fixes and the same fix for the same problem in multiple distributions needlessly... Not that useful of a list for basing any claims, other than software is insecure.

Anytime a patch is released, it gets an entry. If you release 10 patches, you get 10 events. Only the final patch will be listed, this is because the purpose of the list is to index exploits against patches. Nix gets more multiple entries because of the structure of the Nix industry. Lots of very small shops and single people, all working on the same problem. It should also be noted that the bad guys patch their work too. So you get some back and forth sometimes.

And I'd like to know who Thermodyne is talking to that says Linux is secure because it is Linux. Any competent user of Linux is aware of vulnerabilities cropping up. Its insecurities are rarely as severe as Windows ones, but it of course it still has them...

The myth is that Nix is not attacked because the installed base is too small to be of interest. That statement is often made on this very board.


I also noticed some posts about the data being tainted to make Nix look bad. Perhaps you should do some research and then make an informed statement. CERT could care less about who had how many hacks. They just report them. Nix looks worse because of the way the community is organized.