[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Security is a perennial concern for IT administrators. Managers
need a framework to evaluate operating system security that
includes an assessment of base security, network security and
protocols, application security, deployment and operations,
assurance, trusted computing, and open standards. In this study, we
compare Microsoft Windows and Linux security across these seven
categories. The overall findings of this qualitative assessment are
that Linux provides superior to comparable security capabilities in
comparison to Windows, except in the category of assurance–for
now.“The challenge in evaluating Windows and Linux on any criteria
is that there is not a single version of each operating
system…”