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GNU/Linux Security: Ubuntu has been Cracked!

Oct 19, 2009
 
Story Timeline:  35 days

Thanks to Gene Alexander for this link. ] "You know, the time in the near future when “Once ‘Linux’ is (as|more) popular (as|than) ‘Windows’ it will start getting all those viruses too.” "First off, the problem with that statement is that there is no single homogeneous ‘Linux’ to be attacked, meaning GNU/Linux of course, as there is a single ‘Windows’ to be attacked. There are several hundred distributions of GNU/Linux all with differing release versions of software and underlying software libraries. The very heterogeneous nature of the GNU/Linux ecosystem makes creating a far reaching... [read full story]                    

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