Operating system vulnerability
statistics by year, from
Bugtraq. The column on the left is the name of a computer operating system, and the numbers in the year
column are the quantities of security-related
bugs reported in the indicated year. While this may be obvious to some users, I have been led to believe that many of the
writer/
poet/
hippie types on everything2 might be frightened by this list of seemingly
technical words and
spartan pre-formatted text.
OS 1997 1998 1999 2000
AIX 21 38 10 7
BSD (aggr.) 8 8 25 46
BSD/OS 6 5 4 0
BeOS 0 0 0 5
Caldera 3 2 13 19
Connectiva 0 0 0 22
Debian 3 2 32 40
FreeBSD 4 2 17 32
HP-UX 8 5 13 25
IRIX 28 14 9 13
Linux (aggr.) 12 24 99 130
MacOS 0 1 5 0
MacOS X Server 0 0 1 0
Mandrake 0 0 2 39
NetBSD 1 4 10 19
Netware 0 0 4 3
OpenBSD 1 2 4 16
RedHat 6 10 46 76
SCO Unix 1 3 9 2
Slackware 4 8 11 10
Solaris 24 32 36 16
SuSE 0 0 22 27
TurboLinux 0 0 2 17
Unixware 0 3 14 4
Windows 3.1x/9x 1 1 46 43
Windows NT/2000 6 7 99 117