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December 14, 2004

Linux 2.6: few bugs

In Fewer flaws in Linux?, Joe Brockmeier reports on a Coverty report on the new Linux 2.6 kernel - and finds that there are remarkably few bugs in the system.

In a study that too over 4 years to compile:

The project found 985 bugs in the 5.7 million lines of code that make up the latest version of the Linux core operating system, or kernel. A typical commercial program of similar size usually has more than 5,000 flaws or defects, according to data from Carnegie Mellon University.

Although there is no current data on the number of software flaws in Windows XP, an earlier report published at the Register makes for very detailed reading on the comparison of Microsoft vs Linux: Security Report: Windows vs Linux

Posted by brian_turner at December 14, 2004 02:36 PM

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