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Linux has more security bugs because it's a tangled mess of spaghetti code, large sections of which aren't particularly well maintained.

Seriously, try looking for dangling pointer bugs, there's tons, you can just pluck them from the trees.

Here's a comment I posted a while back that might be of interest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301830

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Spent much time crawling through BSD driver code, have you?

Haha, I spent a bit looking at Net and FreeBSD, but I stopped because no-one really uses it, so what's the point?

To be fair, this stuff happens in BSD land too, but nowhere near as much as on Linux. To be fair again, the Linux codebase is a very different beast and has grown in a very different way.

Then please start fixing all these bugs and submit patches!

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