C.Ron7aldo
05-13-2008, 04:49 PM
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• Windows (Vista Sp1)
1. Security
Windows vista Security is really good you got for example User Account Control (UAC)
User Account Control (UAC)
Is a feature in Windows that can help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer UAC does this by asking you for permission or an administrator password before performing actions that could potentially affect your computer's operation or that change settings that affect other users.
And you also got Built-in firewall and free spyware protection Windows Defender
On Vista 64x Microsoft didn’t give the kernel accesses code away like in other windows that made making a virus for Vista 64x very hard.
Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities .The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.
That’s why we gave it an 8.
2. Networking
Vista networking is really easy and powerful but you cant customize it as you like and it might get slow in transferring files that’s why we gave it an 8.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
Windows is well known for it plug and play ability and that have been improved Really well in vista and every thing you plug well get identified easily even if you don’t have the driver for it vista will go to the internet and look for it and download it and install it with 1 click that's one of Windows strongest points
But some companies had a lot of trouble building drivers for it that’s why we gave it a 9.
4. Optimization
That’s Vista weakest point I mean I really need at least 2GB ram to run smooth common I know its Graphical and all but that’s were Microsoft didn’t do a good job that’s why we gave it a 4.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
Sense Microsoft have exclusive rights for DirectX and they maid DirectX 10 which is the best 3D Graphic rendering program and also windows can run OpenGL that’s were Microsoft owned all the gamers in the market for windows that’s why we gave it a 10.
• Linux (Ubuntu)
1. Security
Hardened Kernels
Hardened kernels are modifications to the Linux kernel that add additional security measures. This could include:
1. The randomization of ports, memory addresses, process ID's, and other information that is typically predictable. This can thwart off many types of common attacks.
2. Identify and prevent buffer overflow attacks from resulting in compromise by killing compromised processes (PaX bundled with grsecurity, or Redhat's Exec-Shield combined with prelink randomization). Edgy and higher contain GCC stack protection enforced in most applications, but is unable to respond to several kinds of attacks that a kernel-layer enforcer could. Likewise, PaX and friends have weakness that GCC stack protection helps cover, so the two work great as a duo.
3. Hiding information that Linux usually allows everyone to see, including all running processes on the system, load averages, CPU info, IP addresses, etc. Obscuring this information can help keep attackers "in the dark" so to speak.
4. More aggressive enforcement of buffer overflow protection than what Ubuntu's standard gcc stack protector can do.
5. Adding additional restrictions on the capabilities of regular users that prevent channels of attack.
6. Additional permissions systems that allow finer-grained tuning of various aspects of Linux.
These techniques combined have been shown to be very effective in the real world in guarding against unknown attacks. For example, many administrators of hardened kernel servers either report or even prove that their hardened systems were invulnerable to newly discovered security holes, or that the severity of a breach was significantly reduced.
The most common hardened kernel patch is called "grsecurity2" (http://grsecurity.org/), which does everything on this list. This requires, however, that you manually patch and recompile the kernel. SELinux and AppArmor do the "additional permissions systems" part. The basic theory is that by providing finer definitions of permissions than UNIX users and the "chmod" bits, even a successful attack against one service is virtually useless to attacking the rest of the system.
Running Server(s)
Part of setting up a server is reading/learning how to secure it. Common servers include NFS, Samba, FTP, SSH, VNC, RDP, and HTTP. If the "how-to" you are following does not review security, you need to keep looking ..."Desktops" become "Servers" if server software is installed.
But then again there is not that mach people trying to Destroy and mess up ubutnu because it’s a open source and who want to destroy something build form every one who are they fighting?
That’s why we gave it a 9.
2. Networking
This is Linux Strongest Point Ubuntu have the best networking around and it's really Powerful but it has one con its really hard to configure that's why we gave it a 9.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
There is were Ubuntu don't meet the requirements if you plug something and you are a new user you will have a really hard time just trying to make Linux to recognize it lets say its not user friendly enough and way far from vista plug and play that why we goanna give it a 7.
4. Optimization
That’s the strongest point in Ubuntu although it dos have a really nice graphical interface in my opinion its better then vista with beryl 3D cube and yet it's super fast not faster then DOS of course but still we give will give it a 10.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
Although people managed to install DirectX 9 anf Open GL on Ubuntu its still don’t run game like its should mostly because most game were written to run in .Exe and Linux cant run that unless you used a program called Wine and that well reduce your factuality that’s why we gona give it an 8.
• MAC OS X
1. Security
I used vulnerability statistics from an impartial third party vendor Secunia and I broke them down by Windows XP flaws, Vista flaws, and Mac OS X flaws. Since Secunia doesn’t offer individual numbers for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4, I merged the XP and Vista vulnerabilities so that we can compare Vista + XP flaws to Mac OS X. In case you’re wondering how 19 plus 12 could equal 23, this is because there are many overlapping flaws that is shared between XP and Vista so those don’t get counted twice just as I don’t count something that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 twice.
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X Extremely critical
H Highly critical
M Moderately critical
L Less critical
So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.
Source for this (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758)
That’s why we goanna give it a 6.
2. Networking
From personal experience Mac can have a really hard time finding or connecting to a windows pc in the network and you cant really depend on Mac for servers and such that’s why it has limited networking.
That’s why we goanna give it a 5.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
Mac really bad at this two as you can see that why mostly Mac Computers come with the pacific hardware but mostly Mac detect external hardware's like printers and cameras that why we goanna give it a 5.
4. Optimization
Mac OS X is really fast and smooth and easy to go around in and optimized really well and you will rarely have an error or a crash when it comes to Mac but then again they have chosen the hardware for you and they built it to go with these hardware that should be expected then. That’s why we goanna give it an 8.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
For 3D rendering in Photoshop Mac reliability and speed show off and stand alone as the best but when it comes to gaming and other 3D stuff Mac cant really compete with windows and Linux because I don’t have DirectX and it cant run most of the games.
• DOS
1. Security.
None and really bad. 1
2. Networking.
Old NT which is not that good. 3
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions.
Really hard to find a driver and when you do you goanna have a really bad time installing it
4. Optimization.
DOS is really fast but it don’t have any graphics and don’t use multithreading that’s why we goanna give it an 8
5. 3D Rendering and Games.
There was some games on dos that’s why we goanna give it a 1.
This is mostly my opinions and some info i found in the net feel free to share your opinions two about these Os's
• Windows (Vista Sp1)
1. Security
Windows vista Security is really good you got for example User Account Control (UAC)
User Account Control (UAC)
Is a feature in Windows that can help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer UAC does this by asking you for permission or an administrator password before performing actions that could potentially affect your computer's operation or that change settings that affect other users.
And you also got Built-in firewall and free spyware protection Windows Defender
On Vista 64x Microsoft didn’t give the kernel accesses code away like in other windows that made making a virus for Vista 64x very hard.
Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities .The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.
That’s why we gave it an 8.
2. Networking
Vista networking is really easy and powerful but you cant customize it as you like and it might get slow in transferring files that’s why we gave it an 8.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
Windows is well known for it plug and play ability and that have been improved Really well in vista and every thing you plug well get identified easily even if you don’t have the driver for it vista will go to the internet and look for it and download it and install it with 1 click that's one of Windows strongest points
But some companies had a lot of trouble building drivers for it that’s why we gave it a 9.
4. Optimization
That’s Vista weakest point I mean I really need at least 2GB ram to run smooth common I know its Graphical and all but that’s were Microsoft didn’t do a good job that’s why we gave it a 4.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
Sense Microsoft have exclusive rights for DirectX and they maid DirectX 10 which is the best 3D Graphic rendering program and also windows can run OpenGL that’s were Microsoft owned all the gamers in the market for windows that’s why we gave it a 10.
• Linux (Ubuntu)
1. Security
Hardened Kernels
Hardened kernels are modifications to the Linux kernel that add additional security measures. This could include:
1. The randomization of ports, memory addresses, process ID's, and other information that is typically predictable. This can thwart off many types of common attacks.
2. Identify and prevent buffer overflow attacks from resulting in compromise by killing compromised processes (PaX bundled with grsecurity, or Redhat's Exec-Shield combined with prelink randomization). Edgy and higher contain GCC stack protection enforced in most applications, but is unable to respond to several kinds of attacks that a kernel-layer enforcer could. Likewise, PaX and friends have weakness that GCC stack protection helps cover, so the two work great as a duo.
3. Hiding information that Linux usually allows everyone to see, including all running processes on the system, load averages, CPU info, IP addresses, etc. Obscuring this information can help keep attackers "in the dark" so to speak.
4. More aggressive enforcement of buffer overflow protection than what Ubuntu's standard gcc stack protector can do.
5. Adding additional restrictions on the capabilities of regular users that prevent channels of attack.
6. Additional permissions systems that allow finer-grained tuning of various aspects of Linux.
These techniques combined have been shown to be very effective in the real world in guarding against unknown attacks. For example, many administrators of hardened kernel servers either report or even prove that their hardened systems were invulnerable to newly discovered security holes, or that the severity of a breach was significantly reduced.
The most common hardened kernel patch is called "grsecurity2" (http://grsecurity.org/), which does everything on this list. This requires, however, that you manually patch and recompile the kernel. SELinux and AppArmor do the "additional permissions systems" part. The basic theory is that by providing finer definitions of permissions than UNIX users and the "chmod" bits, even a successful attack against one service is virtually useless to attacking the rest of the system.
Running Server(s)
Part of setting up a server is reading/learning how to secure it. Common servers include NFS, Samba, FTP, SSH, VNC, RDP, and HTTP. If the "how-to" you are following does not review security, you need to keep looking ..."Desktops" become "Servers" if server software is installed.
But then again there is not that mach people trying to Destroy and mess up ubutnu because it’s a open source and who want to destroy something build form every one who are they fighting?
That’s why we gave it a 9.
2. Networking
This is Linux Strongest Point Ubuntu have the best networking around and it's really Powerful but it has one con its really hard to configure that's why we gave it a 9.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
There is were Ubuntu don't meet the requirements if you plug something and you are a new user you will have a really hard time just trying to make Linux to recognize it lets say its not user friendly enough and way far from vista plug and play that why we goanna give it a 7.
4. Optimization
That’s the strongest point in Ubuntu although it dos have a really nice graphical interface in my opinion its better then vista with beryl 3D cube and yet it's super fast not faster then DOS of course but still we give will give it a 10.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
Although people managed to install DirectX 9 anf Open GL on Ubuntu its still don’t run game like its should mostly because most game were written to run in .Exe and Linux cant run that unless you used a program called Wine and that well reduce your factuality that’s why we gona give it an 8.
• MAC OS X
1. Security
I used vulnerability statistics from an impartial third party vendor Secunia and I broke them down by Windows XP flaws, Vista flaws, and Mac OS X flaws. Since Secunia doesn’t offer individual numbers for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4, I merged the XP and Vista vulnerabilities so that we can compare Vista + XP flaws to Mac OS X. In case you’re wondering how 19 plus 12 could equal 23, this is because there are many overlapping flaws that is shared between XP and Vista so those don’t get counted twice just as I don’t count something that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 twice.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/595/96360591fg7.jpg
X Extremely critical
H Highly critical
M Moderately critical
L Less critical
So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.
Source for this (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758)
That’s why we goanna give it a 6.
2. Networking
From personal experience Mac can have a really hard time finding or connecting to a windows pc in the network and you cant really depend on Mac for servers and such that’s why it has limited networking.
That’s why we goanna give it a 5.
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions
Mac really bad at this two as you can see that why mostly Mac Computers come with the pacific hardware but mostly Mac detect external hardware's like printers and cameras that why we goanna give it a 5.
4. Optimization
Mac OS X is really fast and smooth and easy to go around in and optimized really well and you will rarely have an error or a crash when it comes to Mac but then again they have chosen the hardware for you and they built it to go with these hardware that should be expected then. That’s why we goanna give it an 8.
5. 3D Rendering and Games
For 3D rendering in Photoshop Mac reliability and speed show off and stand alone as the best but when it comes to gaming and other 3D stuff Mac cant really compete with windows and Linux because I don’t have DirectX and it cant run most of the games.
• DOS
1. Security.
None and really bad. 1
2. Networking.
Old NT which is not that good. 3
3. Drivers and hardware recognitions.
Really hard to find a driver and when you do you goanna have a really bad time installing it
4. Optimization.
DOS is really fast but it don’t have any graphics and don’t use multithreading that’s why we goanna give it an 8
5. 3D Rendering and Games.
There was some games on dos that’s why we goanna give it a 1.
This is mostly my opinions and some info i found in the net feel free to share your opinions two about these Os's