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[Bill Kenworthy]

One thing you alluded to, but didn't clearly state is that most linux
distros install a lot of user applications, which windows does not. 
i.e., the train simulator alert would go against the linux OS, but the
same program with the same "hole" written for windows doesn't get lumped
with the OS, heavily skewing the stats in favour of windows.  

Am I wrong here?

and yes, I agree fully with you here that *BOTH* windows and linux need
a lot of work out-of-the-box

BillK

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:21, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will
> > conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison
> > compound in "Hogan's Heroes."
> >                                                                                                     
> >  I know Linux and the Mac OS attracts its share of maladjusted jerks just like Windows does; surely 
> >  my other machines would have been infected with something by now if these operating systems        
> >  weren't fundamentally secure.                                                                      
> 
> Sorry, but this "fundamentally secure" thing really gets me. Try putting 
> a linux box out on the 'net unprotected __AND_UNPATCHED__ , and see how 
> long it lasts. Depends on the distro and version, but the answer is 
> often "not long at all". This is what most Windows users do, after all :-(