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Debian Was the Most Vulnerable OS in the Last 20 Years (softpedia.com)
4 points by vordoo on March 13, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Where do the numbers come from?

You hardly can compare the number of tickets in an issue tracker of an open source software (let it alone being a distribution, collecting thousands of packages and reporting straight to upstream developers) with the information spread about closed software.


I remember this clickbait title from a couple of days ago. The comparison is for all packages over Debian's history in the last 20 years versus a specific release version of Windows. Hardly a fair comparison.


This just in, an open source OS has more CVEs over the course of 20 years compared to a closed source OS that is not even 5 years old.




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