Linux more secure than Windows, says study

Ahhh! It is becoming difficult to differentiate who is right and who is dead wrong with the great OS debate! Today I found this article describing Linux as the winner in the latest round of this never ending media war between the two operating systems.

Personally, I think that they both have vulnerabilites that need to be attended to on some level. Recently, Microsoft has been better at getting on top of this sort of thing. Yet for Linux, this was never an issue. Besides that, Linux is more secure by its very nature based at the kernel level.

Another Brown study in the Windows vs Linux security debate claims to prove that the Mighty Vole fudged things when it claimed that its software was more secure than Linux.

The study, compiled by tech journalist Nicholas Petreley concludes that Microsoft’s “Get The Facts” campaign does not deal with the “real facts.”

Before we go into details, we should point out that Petreley’s former life includes editorial director of LinuxWorld. He is the author of the Official Fedora Companion and is co-writing Linux Desktop Hacks for O’Reilly [Oh really, Ed). Oh, and he sometimes flogs his penmanship to the Rogerister.