[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“Enterprise administrators need not fear that 2.6 kernel
developers have compromised security in exchange for enterprise
benchmarks. While vulnerabilities may be found — for example, a
serious flaw was recently discovered in the mremap memory
management features in 2.4 and 2.6 — the open source community
reacts and patches quickly. I haven’t seen security compromises in
Linux, and I don’t expect to see them.“Linux gets stronger with every kernel upgrade. And performance,
reliability and security improvements lead every kernel wish list.
Security, in fact, is at the top of most — and 2.6 won’t
disappoint, as many of the strong features of Linux 2.4 have been
improved in 2.6…”