You may recall that last week Aunty reported that an advanced computer class at Chicago University had found 44 security holes in Unix.

Well, its kissing cousin, Linux, the people who brought you that adorable penguin, Tux, is more secure, even unpatched, than are other computer systems, and specifically Windows, even when patched. And that’s with the 985 bugs recently found in the Linux kernal (but to put it in perspective, that’s in 5.7 million lines of code.

According to a new report by the Honeynet Project, Linux is far more secure than Windows, and one of the most secure OSs around. For those not familiar, the Honeynet Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to information security.

Lance Spitzner, President of the Honeynet Project, explains that the reasons for the relative security in even hole-ridden versions of Linux are two-fold… [Continued…]