[dheretic]

Oh and you might want to take a look at their source

some juicy tidbits for you: holes for 2001: slackware: 10, debian: 28, NT4/2k: 42.

Redhat installs a lot of stuff by default for convenience. The RedHat approach is to setup a fully operational box of some kind and then make the user set the configuration properly. If you cannot take responsibility for locking down a system to your specifications, WTF are you doing be a sysadmin of any kind in the first place?!

Debian and Slackware are very conservative distributions. Debian's debug and analysis cycle is longer than some of Microsoft's entire development cycles. Hence it beats NT4/2k.

So, you were saying? :)

[Bush2000]

Debian and Slackware are very conservative distributions. Debian's debug and analysis cycle is longer than some of Microsoft's entire development cycles. Hence it beats NT4/2k

Linux isn't a single distribution, dude. You know that.

Security vulnerabilities for Linux are additive across all distributions since all distributions are deployed.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hence it beats NT4/2k.

Out of curiosity, how much experience do you have with any Win2000 OS? Have you worked as a Systems Engineer with it? Just asking. You seem certain at it's ability, so I was wondering.

[rdb3]

Debian and Slackware are very conservative distributions.

I'll say! And Slack is a pain in the butt to install. It's great once you get it up and running, though. Experienced Linux users even have problems with its installation.