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Old 14th February 2017
e1-531g e1-531g is offline
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This talk was not focused on Ubuntu 12.04 alone. It was just one example. Speaker is Gentoo developer. Gentoo is very flexible Gnu/Linux distribution, some say that this is meta-distribution.
Talk included also memory mitigation techniques. Linux slowly adopted ALSR. Windows adopted it much quicker. In Windows 10 there are next-gen mitigation techniques such as Code-Flow Integrity.
There is also a talk about fuzzing.
Take this situation as a whole picture not just random pixels.

Theo de Raadt opinin about Gnu/Linux desktop security is similar.
Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013) (0:52 - 1:18 and 2:08 - 2:48)

IMHO from technical, engineering perspective Gnu/Linux is less secure, but there are economical aspects such as being a niche, less popular operating system (desktop use-cases) to the contrary.
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