Linux monoculture is just as bad for security

Another day, another Linux exploit. It’s been hard to keep track over the last few months. Vulnerabilities are inevitable, but they do highlight my concerns again regarding monocultures. Any post I’ve ever written warning about monocultures and Linux (or as I’ve taken to calling my home desktop, KDE/Linux) is received with howls of protest, especially when they escape containment and end up on the usual news aggregator sites. I’ll either be accused of misunderstanding Linux, or overstating the problem with monocultures, or that I should check out this well, actually. I’ve even had people claim Linux as a monoculture is good, on the basis that Windows was bad. I’d point out the logical fallacy if I weren’t instead blocking their email address and moving on with my life! I concede, Linux isn’t necessarily a monoculture in the way Windows used to be, back when that OS was widely relevant. Different distributions do offer a wide and varying degree of support for packages and systems. My…