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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Few things, in rough order:

    • Smaller = less attack surface. You can strip a Linux OS down to only what is needed.

    • Open source, so it's can be peered review. There are Unix distros like OpenBSD, that share lot of user space component options, where auditing is a big thing. The whole sunlight and oxygen stops things festering as much. As abosed to things locked in a box in another box down in a cellar.

    • Open source transparency forces corporates to be better. We can see what they are and aren't doing.

    • Diversity. The is no "Linux", it's a ecosystem of Linux distros all built and configured differently, using different components. Think of Linux as just a type of base board in a sea of Unix Lego bits. There are plenty of big deployments on BSD bases that share a lot with some Linux deployments.

    • Unix security is simplier than Windows security, so easer to not mess up.