Alors, pour les aïs, un petit résumé
1- Cette étude est financée par Reasoning pour se faire connaître:
"The study was not commissioned by any of the Linux vendors or companies who might be competing with Linux. Instead, Trappe said that the company had performed the study primarily to highlight its services."
2- La pile TCP-IP n'a pas été choisi au hasard ou par incompétence:
"The company chose the TCP/IP stack because it provided a good point of comparison."
3- Quels sont les autres OS?
"The company did not name the specific operating systems, but Reasoning's CEO Scott Trappe confirmed that two were commercial Unix systems, one was "not Unix but in very broad use," and the embedded implementations were by "major vendors of networking equipment.""
4- Que sont ces bugs, qu'en est-il advenu?
"The company looks for five kinds of defects in code: Memory leaks, null pointer dereferences, bad deallocations, out of bounds array access and uninitialized variables. According to Trappe, none of the errors found in the Linux TCP/IP stack were security issues. At least one of the issues, a memory leak, was fixed in the 2.4.20 kernel before Reasoning notifed the kernel team of the defects. Four of the problems found (an uninitialized variable and some out-of-bounds errors) are not truly defects, since they do not cause the code to behave incorrectly."
5- Cette étude ne montre pas que l'open source est meilleur, mais qu'il est au moins au niveau des programmes propriétaires:
"Trappe admitted that it might be stretching it to draw too many conclusions from the study of one piece of software, but that their study "does support some claims that it can rival commercial quality.""
# Toutes les infos et une critique bien faîte, ici
Posté par oliv . En réponse à la dépêche Etude de fiabilité de GNU/Linux face à des OS propriétaires. Évalué à 6.
http://lwn.net/Articles/22025/(...)
Alors, pour les aïs, un petit résumé
1- Cette étude est financée par Reasoning pour se faire connaître:
"The study was not commissioned by any of the Linux vendors or companies who might be competing with Linux. Instead, Trappe said that the company had performed the study primarily to highlight its services."
2- La pile TCP-IP n'a pas été choisi au hasard ou par incompétence:
"The company chose the TCP/IP stack because it provided a good point of comparison."
3- Quels sont les autres OS?
"The company did not name the specific operating systems, but Reasoning's CEO Scott Trappe confirmed that two were commercial Unix systems, one was "not Unix but in very broad use," and the embedded implementations were by "major vendors of networking equipment.""
4- Que sont ces bugs, qu'en est-il advenu?
"The company looks for five kinds of defects in code: Memory leaks, null pointer dereferences, bad deallocations, out of bounds array access and uninitialized variables. According to Trappe, none of the errors found in the Linux TCP/IP stack were security issues. At least one of the issues, a memory leak, was fixed in the 2.4.20 kernel before Reasoning notifed the kernel team of the defects. Four of the problems found (an uninitialized variable and some out-of-bounds errors) are not truly defects, since they do not cause the code to behave incorrectly."
5- Cette étude ne montre pas que l'open source est meilleur, mais qu'il est au moins au niveau des programmes propriétaires:
"Trappe admitted that it might be stretching it to draw too many conclusions from the study of one piece of software, but that their study "does support some claims that it can rival commercial quality.""