UK Gov Security Assessment puts Ubuntu in First Place [pdf]

[InTheSwiss]

God was this put together by some kind of secondary school student on work placement? It 6 pages with close to zero actual content that isn't just copy/pasted from the links they cite.

Awful.

[Daviey]

No, it was put together by a chap called Darryl Weaver. He's a smart guy, and you are damn rude.

It's fine to comment on the lack of deep detail, but the way you have conveyed it has just made you sound like an ass.

[noir_lord]

It's a summary of those links, instead of having to visit them all you get an overview of the results with links to the relevant supporting evidence.

It's actually an interesting overview despite me not been an Ubuntu user.

[polymatter]

If you want people with power to read your summary, 6 pages is about the maximum you can make it. Note the use of nice simple traffic light colors too.

[maerF0x0]

Where the heck is openBSD ? if its "security" you're trying to assess, why not use the distro that aims to be secure ? Ubuntu aims to be easy .

Edit: I previously said "freeBSD", meant "openBSD"

[baldfat]

openBSD hacked by FBI in 2010 :) http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/53067-fbi-accused-o...

[Bob_Sheep]

From the original guidance I don't see the government making any claims about Ubuntu being in "First Place" https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/end-user-devices-s...

[Ergomane]

Ubuntu and Windows 8 have the same amount of "orange" and "green", but because the latter is grouped with Windows 7 it disappears from the table.

[Misha_K1]

Looks like a rather shallow analysis.

[arethuza]

This appears to be a document from a Canonical Sales Engineer summarizing the UK government report.

[nodata]

Curious: Red Hat is missing from the comparison. I wonder why.

[qwerta]

Because it does not run on phone. It is survey about mobile operating systems.

[lotsofcows]

I'm guessing they only wanted one Linux distro.

As a CentOS fan I hate to say it, but for a "normal" user, I'd go for Ubuntu too.

[lispsil]

Android has SEAndroid to fix all those issues.

[nodata]

Guess why they chose 4.2...