Linux is a more secure and agile platform than Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, according to a study by Google’s Project Zero. While Windows and macOS were earlier believed to be safer than Linux, thanks to regular security patches and constant updates.
The Project Zero team found out developers at Linux are faster at fixing security bugs compared to other platforms. The report showed Linux does a better job than Google’s own teams at Chrome, Chrome OS and Android. The study looked at data between January 2019 and December 2021 to determine how much time developers took to fix security issues.
Linux developers took 25 days and Apple took 69 days to close security issues, while Microsoft took 83 days. Google and Mozilla took 44 days and 46 days respectively to fix bugs.
The study also looked at the time taken to fix bugs in mobile operating systems. Apple released security patches for iOS faster than Android developers. Apple was able to fix 76 bug reports on an average of 70 days while Samsung took 72 days to fix 10 bug reports, and Google took the same time to fix 6 bug reports.
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