[GLLUG] WinVista security better than Linux?

[Richard Houser]

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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.
> 

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.
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