Ubuntu Security: Holes Found, Holes Fixed

[Michael Haney]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Oh my God! There are security holes in Ubuntu 10.04! The sky is falling!
> Bill Gates is the maker of the one true operating system; forgive us Bill
> for we have worshiped at the feet of false Penguin idols. Oh please, give me
> a break!
>
> Linux, like all other operating systems and software, has security holes.
> Always has, always will. No one ever said Linux was perfect. It’s not. It
> never will be.
>
> What makes Ubuntu and Linux better than most of their competitors aren’t
> that they are flawless. It’s that when bugs are found, they fixed as fast as
> possible and then the fixes are pushed out to users immediately. There is no
> monthly Patch Tuesday. If there’s a significant problem, its tracked down
> and fixed. Period. End of statement.
>
> That is after all, the whole point of open source. This specific process is
> called Linus’ Law by its author, Eric S. Raymond in his seminal description
> of open-source software development, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Formally,
> this “law” is that “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base,
> almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be
> obvious to someone,” but if you know it, you probably know it as: “Given
> enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
>
> It also helps that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. Linux is
> based on the design idea that it’s working on a multi-user, networked
> systems. From its very start, it was built to deal with a potentially
> hostile world. Windows wasn’t.
>
> [More]
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-security-holes-found-holes-fixed/8402
>

I like your humor in this.

This is where healthy open source projects have a major advantage over
big, lumbering commercial entities.  They can respond to bugs and
security holes a whole hell of a lot faster.  In fact, many security
holes and bugs can be fixed THE DAY THEY'RE FOUND and released to
users THE SAME DAY.

Microsoft and Apple simply cannot compete with that kind of flexibility.

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