So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that — it turns out — had been around since 2004. A fix was actually supplied back then by SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli, apparently; for some unknown reason, however, it never got incorporated into the Linux kernel. That, fortunately, has now been corrected. Nevertheless, even the most ardent Linux supporter can only wonder what happened to delay the fix this long.. Read the rest at linuxinsider.com