Why Linux is more secure than Windows

[Christopher Browne]

On 2/6/07, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311
>
> A graphical display of system calls, comparing the two operating systems.

There's actually also a disanalogy involved...

It's not merely an OS comparison; it is a comparison of how two
different applications (Apache vs IIS) utilize system calls on two
different operating systems.

It seems to me that it would be *very* interesting to see a third
comparison, which could indeed be done, where they graphed the system
calls done when Apache served up a web page on Windows.  No doubt it
would be somewhat different from the other two graphs; it would be
*WAY* more of an OS comparison, since it would take out any
fundamental behavioural differences between IIS and Apache.

It would also be interesting to see how some other web server like WN
or Boa handles things.  We might well discover that Apache's behaviour
is also pretty byzantine and seeming-wasteful...
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