CSO

First of all, I read "Exactly how biased am I?"; kudos to you.

I will qualify my comments/questions by saying I only found the "ON" switch 8 years ago and I quickly looked for a solution other than Microsoft. (Something about the way the manual for 98SE was written that got under my skin.)

It seems to my untrained eye that all this is comparing apples to oranges. Would it not be more appropriate to compare RHEL4 to Longhorn and SLED9 to Vista? Or is Vista a stand alone Enterprise solution now?

Also if I may point out, aside from the wonderful low count of vulns that you've shown here, I recently bought my wife a new laptop with Vista preinstalled and just last night the new anti-virus I was loading on it still had 23,000+ signatures and two assorted truckloads of trojans and worms to look for. This is secure by design?
Conversly, the only thing that's ever crashed my Mandrake/Mandriva system is me.
Oh and by the way, so you can pass this on to the guys in programming, Vista still dogs the processor something terrible. I burned a Mandriva One disk and had Matisse running from the Optical Drive and it runs just as fast and boots faster.

I think the upshot of most any comparison to an audience like you'll get here is, and I know I'm throwing gasoline on the fire, what if Red Hat had been able to spend $6+ BILLION Dollars and 5 years in the developement of RHEL5? Where do you think the statistics would be then?

But I don't expect you to shoot yourself in the foot either.