Swedish military feel safer with Linux so drop Windows

[ankitsagwekar]

The Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its core IT infrastructure servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, primarily for security reasons.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9322/53/

[~Phenom~]

linux is definitely safer than windows. The world knows it.
And change the poll from "Can u think linux is safer then windows" to "Do u think linux is safer than windows?"

[morpheusv6]

Yes Linux is definitely SAFER than windows. Though there needs an improvement in the standardization of Linux versions.

[NucleusKore]

The Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its core IT infrastructure servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, primarily for security reasons.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9322/53/

Guess it was about time they did that. The US Navy did that long ago :-)
Please read
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13987,00.html

and

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/16/housemail.idg/

Regards :-D

[led_shankar]

linux is definitely safer than windows. The world knows it.
And change the poll from "Can u think linux is safer then windows" to "Do u think linux is safer than windows?"
for fanboys, the question is appropriately worded. They CAN'T think Linux is safer than windows

[mehulved]

It's also got a lot to do with linux being open source. That makes linux trustworthy. And undoubtably there are some great FOSS tools for security.

[led_shankar]

honestly, I always thought that superpower militaries would use their own OSes. After all, a lot of computing foundation was laid by them.

[Manshahia]

undoubtably there are some great FOSS tools for security.

Wats FOSS?