If you use Linux instead of Microsoft Windows, its free availability may well be a deciding factor. But the fact that virus and malware contamination are less likely to take down your Linux computers is no doubt an essential influencing factor as well. But does using a more popular Linux distro like Canonical’s Ubuntu make your system more or less vulnerable than a Linux-on-a-stick variety such as Puppy Linux? More likely than not, if you use any Linux distro, you will compute in a relatively strong security envelope.
Great article by Mr. Germain.
It's definitely going into my reference files on "Unix/Linux Security".
Keep up the good work, Mr. Germain.
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Linux Distros: When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be Secure
Posted by: Jack M. Germain August 12, 2011 05:00 AMIf you use Linux instead of Microsoft Windows, its free availability may well be a deciding factor. But the fact that virus and malware contamination are less likely to take down your Linux computers is no doubt an essential influencing factor as well. But does using a more popular Linux distro like Canonical’s Ubuntu make your system more or less vulnerable than a Linux-on-a-stick variety such as Puppy Linux? More likely than not, if you use any Linux distro, you will compute in a relatively strong security envelope.
It's definitely going into my reference files on "Unix/Linux Security".
Keep up the good work, Mr. Germain.