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Study: Safest OS isn't Windows--or Linux - huh ?
TheQuirk:
Because it's direct reference to the topic, champ.
quote:Linux needs to be updated at least once a month, and that's not even enough when you're running some kind of web server on it.
So all those Linux configurations "working fine" are an easy target for crackers.
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quote:You can get debian stable, which can run for years at a time without updates.
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restin256:
Whoops.
Pantso:
Mac OS X is a lot more complicated system. Thus one cannot say that it is simply "based on BSD". For more information you can read the following excellent and recently slashdotted article:
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/
OpenBSD on the other hand is as far as I am concerned the most secure Operating system out ther right now. Why? Simply because it includes advanced cryptographic features never before seen in an OS. That fact alone would make it illegal to deploy in the US, therefore it is being developed in Canada.
The Linuces are also very secure systems, as long as one knows how to set them up properly, ie disable some services one does not need during startup, set up iptables properly and foremostly never run the system as the root or superuser.
These measures should be enough for every home user, with the addition that one should update one's system as frequently as possible.
hm_murdock:
Mac OS X is actually "based on" MACH. However, the bits that make it OS X could just as easily run on NT, or something else.
Mac OS X, however runs atop Darwin, which is a BSD-derived OS powered by MACH.
bill_ford:
I can get a Windows System to run very secure. Only problem is when they are secure there about as handy as an expensive heater, because thats all they can do.
We recently migrated all our MSSQL stuff across to the UNIX office (MySQL now I think). Running much more secure now, and faster.
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