[GLLUG] WinVista security better than Linux?
Thomas Hruska
thruska at cubiclesoft.com
Wed Jun 27 02:59:58 EDT 2007
Richard Houser wrote:
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>>> 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.
>> Microsoft probably did a comparison to RHEL 4 because it was released
>> roughly around the same time Vista was. They wanted to show that in
>> timeframe x (6 months) between products y and z, the number of
>> vulnerabilities (v) in product y were less than z. 5.2 is much more
>> recent and would have ruined the timeframe comparison they were going for.
>>
>> Microsoft is a HUGE company - the left hand doesn't always know what the
>> right hand is doing. So getting up-to-date statistics in a timely
>> manner may not necessarily be possible. Elephants (generally speaking)
>> move slowly but they'll obliterate anything that gets underfoot.
>>
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> Redhat Linux 5.2 is actually MUCH older and was released in either 1998
> or 1999. Somewhere I still have the install media from that boxed set.
>
> My comment was mainly that RHEL seems to be a very odd choice of a
> distro. Since RedHat spun off Fedora and dropped it's previous
> workstation line, I haven't heard of anyone using that distro as a
> workstation (not counting Fedora Core). At one point, Redhat had issued
> a statement effectively saying that it wished to focus solely on the
> server business and phase out it's support of the desktop completely.
RHEL 5.2 = RedHat _Enterprise_ Linux 5.2. Sorry about the confusion.
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