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Countdown of security vulnerabilities and fixes

Forrester Research on its main site currently leaves the question open of whether Linux is more secure than Windows. According to Forrester's count, Microsoft Windows had 128 flaws, Red Hat Linux - 229 flaws, Debian - 286, Mandrake Linux - 199, SUSE - 176.
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Forrester Research on its main site currently leaves the question open of whether Linux is more secure than Windows. According to Forrester's count, Microsoft Windows had 128 flaws, Red Hat Linux - 229 flaws, Debian - 286, Mandrake Linux - 199, SUSE - 176. 100% of Microsoft flaws were fixed, while the number of fixes is 99,6% for Red Hat, 96,2% for Debian, 99% for Mandrake and 97,7% for SUSE.

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