Some have argued that Unix/Linux systems reuse a small number of security featur

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Some have argued that Unix/Linux systems reuse a small number of security features in many contexts across the system, while Windows systems provide a much larger number of more specifically targeted security features used in the appropriate contexts. This may be seen as a trade-off between simplicity and lack of flexibility in the Unix/Linux approach, against a better targeted but more complex and harder to correctly configure approach in Windows. Discuss this trade-off as it impacts on the security of these respective systems, and the load placed on administrators in managing their security.

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Linux has the notion of an administrative (root) user that maintains and operates the system, and desktop users who only run the software on the system, is completely ingrained in most Linux distributions. Now it

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