[CoLoCo] Ubuntu Wins Hacker Contest

[David Overcash]

What's sad is that the actual "test" didn't prove anything.  None of the
system vulnerabilities were due to CORE applications that were part of the
operating system, they were all extra applications.

While I would love to simply declare Ubuntu (or GNU/Linux) as the outright
winner, that's simply crazy.

The fact that a vulnerability in ADOBE FLASH got Vista out of the ring, and
Safari for OS X (which is used hardly ever anymore with firefox usage
increasing greatly on the mac, at least according to what I see on the
hundreds of mac computers on my campus), shows nothing more than poor
programming by Adobe and Apple for a web browser.

Granted, finding a bug or exploit in one of these programs should NEVER
allow you access to your entire system, this doesn't necessarilly mean that
Ubuntu wouldn't have been hacked eventually with the same luck of using
Adobe Flash rather than Gnash or some similar alternate.

Still an interesting read!  Thanks for posting the link!

Cheers,
David

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> >
> > There is an amazing number of moronic comments there. Each fanboy
> > trying to find an excuse why his favorite os lost or discount why
> > Linux won. I don't understand why people can't just say "yeah, windows
> > isn't that great but I like it anyway" or similar. They have to try
> > and somehow prove it's better. People need to get a life and just
> > accept that Linux is better :) - that doesn't mean they have to like
> > or use it.
> Its also pretty sad since Slashdot is supposed to be a part of an open
> source advocacy group and is run by an organization that promotes FOSS.
>
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