Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org> : http://www.cio.com/article/155753 : : Mark Shuttleworth : founder of the Ubuntu Project No bias here. : 1. Users Love It Onlooker do not. Earlier this year I watched a fellow passenger boot up his laptop running Ubuntu. I came to two possible conclusions watching the boot sequence from a few feet away. First, the guy was running a laptop a bit older than my TRS-80 in the closet. Second, Ubuntu is the slowest booting OS I have ever seen and gives Linux a bad name. It took just shy of three minutes from power button to desktop splash/login screen. My Windows XP box on a low end Dell boots up in around 30 seconds. : 4. A Superlative Security Record : : Security is a top priority for Ubuntu, which has been rated No. 1 for : security update quality and responsiveness in recent studies. Security : updates are freely available to all users of Ubuntu, with no : subscription required. Ubuntu is also conservative with updates; every : change made to the operating system or to the base applications is : peer reviewed for security. And of course, being an open source : platform, Ubuntu inherits the positive security characteristics of : Linux in general. http://www.ubuntu.com/usn Uh, load this page and explain to me again how this is "superlative"? __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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