John J. McDonough 21:37 2004-07-14: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Morgan Olsson" >Subject: Re: [OT:] Is Linux the future or just nostalgic? > > >> History have also showed that important issues are more >> quickly solved on Linux than Windows. > >Show me the data. Several places. Try google. =20 To give you some credit, some reports find Microsoft to be fastest, example:= http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557459,00.asp " Microsoft Corp., however, fixes security problems the quickest=97which is= a good thing, since it also has the most major security holes." So even IF Microsoft do solve problems faster the integrated effect of all= problems is still much higher. In another report they said: generally, the really important problems on= Linux was solved in a couple of days, while less important issues naturally= have less priority. Microsoft seemed to take about double time for criticalproblems, but= generally a little quicker on less important ones. Microsoft sends out= many times more patches, but that has reasons... ;) Another: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1490382,00.asp Related:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp Anyway: Linux have alrady proven it is capable of being most secure servers - not= only theoretically. Linux is today proving it can be a desktop OS too. If you think the most used systems get viruses just because they are most= used, then use Linux, MAC OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris, whatever on your own= desktop... The examples was just some articles from one site. Happy googling... Godnight. /Morgan -- Morgan Olsson, Kivik, Sweden -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu