News from PANUG/BizNix - November 14, 2002 http://panug.org - http://biznix.org BIZNIX MEETING The BizNix meeting is being combined with the PANUG meeting this month. It will be held next week on Thursday, November 21 at 6:15 pm at Novell's office in Tigard. LINKS Various people, such as Emy Loanzon, have submitted links to articles they thought were interesting. Here they are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59197-2002Nov2.html http://news.com.com/2100-1023-964725.html?tag=fd_top Run A Microsoft-Free Shop http://www.cio.com/archive/010102/shop_content.html LPI BEATS RED HAT CERTIFICATION Here's an article that claims that the Linux LPI certification is better than the Red Hat certification: http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2123398,00.html MAC OS MOST SECURE? by Ed Sawicki - Accelerated Learning Center / Tailored Computers There's yet another published report that tells us which operating systems are most secure. This time, it's the Macintosh that's purported to be most secure. I don't think we need a report to tell us that a Mac has far fewer security issues than a PC running Windows - that's quite obvious. What's not obvious is why the Mac OS is more secure than Linux. Like so many other sily reports and articles by those who don't understand the real issues, it concludes that the Mac OS is most secure by simply comparing numbers of reported security-related issues. These numbers are meaningless as a basis for determining how secure software is. Open source software will always have far more reported security issues than closed source software because far more people are scrutinizing the code. This scrutiny produces better and more secure code. An open source operating system, such as Linux and FreeBSD, will always tend be more secure than commercial software that's closed to scrutiny. Although I think that Mac OS is not more secure than Linux, it does not mean that I think we should use Linux on corporate desktops. Using Macs or a thin client on the corporate desktops and Linux in the server room is looking better and better. You can find the article here: http://www.idg.net/ic_961134_1794_9-10000.html