Originally posted by: RDMustang1
Originally posted by: vortix
yet another reason to get a mac with osx or run linux
Most distributions of Linux have many more exploits found every day than windows does in a year. The main reason is because most power users use linux.
Don't know about Macs but lack of exploits probably has to do with the fact that less than 4% of all PCs are Macs and therefore the user base isn't substantial enough for anyone who has any type of life to want to find any exploits for it.
Wow! Talk about exaggeration!
MacOS is essentially derived from the BSD operating systems. They are well known to be "the most secure OS's" on the planet. It comes as no great surprise that MacOS has retained this attribute.
Most distributions of Linux do
not have more exploits found every day than windows does in a year. That is simply wrong wrong wrong. When you say "Linux" that does not mean ALL the applications that run on it! If, for example, Apache or Sendmail have an exploit, that is
not Linux, that is
Apache or
Sendmail with the problem. This is the equivalent of saying that Windows XP is spyware because you installed WeatherBug or some other spyware-filled app onto your XP machine.
<i>The main reason is because most power users use linux.</i>
So, because power users use linux, linux is inherently less secure? Huh? Wouldn't that be the other way around, since the power users are the same people that are writing the code that goes into linux?
And since there seem to be a fair amount of Microsoft zealots on here who say silly things like "go away you hippy" whenever someone mentions Linux (for reasons that I can't comprehend), I will note that I am using Windows XP as my main desktop.