[ Thanks to Michael
Tiemann for this link. ]
“Last week, as part of my Red Hat responsibilities, I was
invited to give a talk for an audience of IT executives from the
DoD and Intelligence Community on the topic of security. In
preparation for that presentation, I looked up some history on Red
Hat’s kernel updates and found that over the past four years of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 there had been zero critical
security flaws (and fewer than 200 other total errata). Overlapped
with that, over the past two years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
version 5 there had also been zero critical security flaws
identified in the kernel. Of course past performance is no
guarantee of future results, but clearly where security is
important, open source is delivering a solid foundation upon which
to build.”