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Linux hacks rare as hens' teeth, says survey

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Adding more fuel to the Linux versus Windows fire, a US research firm this week released a survey that noted only eight percent of Linux developers had ever seen a virus infect their systems. Does that mean Linux is a more secure OS? Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's Linux analyst, certainly thinks so.

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Comments (2)

phubert ·
So, is a nearly three year old article to be considered to be RELEVANT today?

I'm sure Nick's observations are worthwhile... but a bit difficult to apply almost three years later...
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
My bad. I caught this at Digg this morning and didn't notice the article's original date.

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