I ran across an excellent article on Really Linux today. It’s entitled Still Debating Linux on the Eve of the Zotob WORM.

The article is written by Walter V. Koenning and in part answers the question: why, exactly, is GNU/Linux more secure than Windows?

Here’s a snippet:

Another constant factoid used to make the argument that Windows and Linux are just as stable and secure has to do with total number of users. The argument goes, “if a majority of systems were running Linux we would see comparable numbers of failures.” Sadly this argument, a kind of pseudo logical premise fails to recognize that today there are actually more Linux servers running Internet infrastructure than there are Microsoft servers.

Here’s a link to the full article. (link).

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