Windows has less vulnerabilities than Mac OS, iOS, and Linux?
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Another article on the subject
http://betanews.com/2015/02/22/os-x-ios-and-linux-have-more-vulnerabilities-than-windows/
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Linux is really that viable as an entity. Have to look at a specific distro. Does Windows as a base OS have fewer than CentOS 7 as a base OS? That most distros include thousands or tens of thousands of applications as part of the included system means that we are looking at two very different things.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Linux is really that viable as an entity. Have to look at a specific distro. Does Windows as a base OS have fewer than CentOS 7 as a base OS? That most distros include thousands or tens of thousands of applications as part of the included system means that we are looking at two very different things.
Yeah I'm guessing you're probably right. Windows vs a core Linux without all that strap on apps is probably fewer, but if you're really looking to compare a desktop to a desktop OS this report is probably good.
If you want to compare server to server, linux probably wins with fewer vulnerabilities.
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@Dashrender said:
Yeah I'm guessing you're probably right. Windows vs a core Linux without all that strap on apps is probably fewer, but if you're really looking to compare a desktop to a desktop OS this report is probably good.
Not really. Windows Server and Windows Desktop are effectively identical. Linux desktop has 20,000 additional apps in the distro.
For example, Windows Desktop comes with "Notepad." Linux desktop (say Fedora or Ubuntu) comes with twenty notepad competitors, at least two or three complete office suites like MS Office, several web browsers, databases, image editors, video editing suites, hundreds or thousands of games, etc.
There is no means of comparing them. That you throw in Desktop doesn't really change it.
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When you say 'comes with' do you mean those are automatically installed by default when you install linux?
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@Dashrender said:
When you say 'comes with' do you mean those are automatically installed by default when you install linux?
No, but are part of the distro. How do you define "Linux" to compare to Windows if you don't include the things that can be installed with the base install?
Linux distros and Windows are fundamentally different things. If you can come up with a definition that is comparable between the two for comparison, I'd be surprised. There is no clear way to compare as they are just so different as to what is included. One is much, much more bare - but has tons and tons more in its "part of the distro" options. The other is never as bare, but comes with little additional.
