mohaughn thit the nail on the head....ALL OSs have their own issues and BOTH development models open-source and closed-source have have flaws.

I've been running 2000 for 3 years now and maintain websites that most of you have probably been to at some time or another, yet I have NEVER had one of my servers be compromised or become unstable. I have been in environments were it seemed like if you sneezed near the server it would blue screen, but that was because of some stupid admin that did not know his a*# from a keyboard.

I recently installed a 2kpro box and a RH9 box(basic workstation nothing more), then ran Windows Update and the RHN Update. I had 37 patches that needed to be installed onto the RH9 box and only 35 on the 2kpro box. Granted one of the M$ updates was a SP, but still...RH9 is not that old and and 2k is just over 3 years old???

I think M$ gets more publicity about its needed patches than any of the *nix distros. It almost seems as though they *nix issues get no PR, creating a false sense of security for those NOT in the know.