Fri 7 Jan 2005
Statistics prove that Linux has less bugs than commercial software
Posted by Prakash under Linux
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Computer science researchers at Stanford University have done an analysis that Linux has far fewer bugs than commercial competitors.
Here’s the maths:
Commercial software has 20 – 30 bugs per 1,000 lines of code.
Linux Kernel has 0.17 bugs per 1,000 lines of code.
And most importantly, majority of the .17 bugs in the Linux kernel are already fixed.
Wired has an article:
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I think Windows itself is a bug or rather a collection of bus thrown together by a master bugger!
It makes sense that the linux KERNEL but it is not right to compare it to commercial software in general since the kernel is one piece of software unlike gnome and KDE which have much more bugs than the kernel. The results seem reasonable and I also believe that FOSS software usually has less bugs than proprietary software but the posted statistics are biased.
Hello John,
May be you are right about that the statistics but you have to accept that as an operating system Windows has more bugs then Linux.