[GLLUG] WinVista security better than Linux?

[Richard Houser]

Thomas Hruska wrote:
> In addition to comparing Vista to XP, Jones compared Vista to 
> open-source operating systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the most 
> downloaded GNU/Linux distribution, saw 129 publicly disclosed bugs 
> during its first six months of availability. Forty of them were ranked 
> "high" severity. Red Hat fixed a total of 281 vulnerabilities in Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation in the first six months, 86 of which were 
> rated "high" severity. On the basis of these numbers, Jones concluded 
> that Vista was more secure than its open-source counterpart.

Anyone here know someone that runs RHEL 4 as a workstation?  It would be 
about my last choice in a workstation distro (not that high on my list 
as a server either, but for different reasons).  Considering past 
studies, I almost surprised it wasn't a comparison against RedHat Linux 5.2.