Apple won't fix security flaws

[illumin8]

Originally posted by paulwhannel
in my experience, apple has rarely abandoned an OS verison while it's not secure... they do a good job of finalizing it before moving on. apple has rarely had a final product or version with any problems remaining at all, especially security issues. if someone can point out where i am wrong, please do.

As far as stability is concerned, you're correct, but the issue with security updates is that things don't stay the same. Hackers continue to find new holes in the core components of our OS so when a vendor stops making security patches, your OS will become insecure fairly quickly.

 

[illumin8]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Sun and Solaris are hardly a holy grail. Sun releases more bugs in one release of Solaris than Apple ever will.

What information are you basing this on? The fact that Sun releases more patches than Apple does?

Sun and Apple have very different patch methodologies. Sun releases a separate patch for every single package or component of their OS. Apple likes to roll their updates into one large point release.

That doesn't mean one company has more bugs in their OS or less. Unless you have access to their bug tracking database, how could you possibly know how many bugs each one has.

Also, both are stable and reliable Unix operating systems. They just server different purposes.