IT professionals give thumbs-up to Linux over security

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Linux's reputation for security received a boost from a survey of more than 6,000 development managers, who gave the open source operating system higher ratings on security for both server and application-related attacks

Separately, Linux developers are increasingly turning to non-commercial distributions, and see less need for the technical support provided by commercial distributors, according to a survey published this week by Evans Data.

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the new SE Linux features takes the security level a new level where the most powerful user root to does not have all the rights and privleges over the system. SELinux extension is the way of the future as far security is concern.

ferrarif50 said:
Separately, Linux developers are increasingly turning to non-commercial distributions, and see less need for the technical support provided by commercial distributors, according to a survey published this week by Evans Data.

I remember a saying...

There are five kinds of lies...
1) Lies
2) Terrible Lies
3) Benchmarks
4) TCO Studies
5) Surveys

Just my 2 cents...