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SECURITY BREACH - LINUX V. LINUX

Brian Grainger

It is not often you read about yet another security breach together with the words 'Microsoft Operating Systems are unaffected'. The problem is with BIND, which runs on non Microsoft based domain name servers. See the following link for details:
http://www.cw360asp.com/eb/eb.asp?b=1016&a=113045&f=1&i=246452
Actually this is not the first time there have been problems with BIND. A coding fault in an earlier version had to be hastily patched as some of these very important servers fell over.

Talking of things other than Microsoft and one thinks of Unix and Linux. The main problem with Unix was the variety of different versions which meant cross platform compatibility was impossible to achieve. I thought the rush to Linux had solved this problem but some people will never learn. Only days after several major Linux players joined forces as United Linux we hear that Red Hat, Oracle and Dell have formed a competing alliance. Details at:
http://www.silicon.com/a53777
One of the reasons Microsoft is successful is there is only one of them! Compatibility is easy to achieve. Why cannot the Linux community, the only chance of a Microsoft alternative, understand this and stop shooting itself in the foot.

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