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eWeek: XP SP2 Gives Reasons to Switch to Linux

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 27, 2004

[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]

“Contrary to popular belief, I’m perfectly happy to run Windows
as well as Linux desktops. It’s just that, well… the Linux
desktops tend to run better and be more secure then their Windows
cousins. And that’s true both for me and for enterprise desktop
users.

“Take, if you will, please take it, Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack
2). I’ve worked a lot with SP2, and I didn’t expect to see great
security improvements from it. I know Windows too well to think
that anything short of a complete redesign will actually make it
approach Linux’s levels of security…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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