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Comment Refer to statistics and reports (Score 1) 674

by svadu on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @05:24AM (#26809843) Attached to: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?

Refer to reports on vulnerabilities and how fast they are fixed (sometimes statistics is the only language tey undersand).

For example:

http://secunia.com/ shows that Ubuntu 8.10 (latest stable version) has 0% unpatched advisories (0 of 41 Secunia advisories: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20299/) while at the same time Vista has 10% unpached (5 of 51 Secunia advisories http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13223/).

Submission + - How Kernel Hackers Fixed Desktop Linux (oreilly.com)

Submitted by

chromatic

on Thursday October 02, 2008 @01:47PM

chromatic writes: "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."

Comment There is no police in Russia (Score 3, Interesting) 201

by svadu on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @01:06PM (#25206441) Attached to: Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus

It's funny to mention there is no police in Russia, It's actually called militia :)

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