Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals

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GO LINUX

- Karen

http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,66022,00.html

By Michelle Delio
Dec. 14, 2004

Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development
results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics
to back up their claims.

According to a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux
source code conducted by five Stanford University computer science
researchers, the Linux kernel programming code is better and more
secure than the programming code of most proprietary software.

The report, set to be released on Tuesday, states that the 2.6 Linux
production kernel, shipped with software from Red Hat, Novell and
other major Linux software vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million
lines of code, well below the industry average for commercial
enterprise software. Windows XP, by comparison, contains about 40
million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis.

Commercial software typically has 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines
of code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable
Computing Consortium. This would be equivalent to 114,000 to 171,000
bugs in 5.7 million lines of code.

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