Reasoning Inc. is making the results of its defect inspection of the Linux TCP/IP protocol stack available for public download. The study, first reported last month, concluded that the TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in Linux kernel version 2.4.19 exhibited a very low defect density as compared to several commercial… equivalents, suggesting that open source software can be of comparable or superior quality than commercial software.

Reasoning says it found 8 defects in 81,852 lines of Linux kernel source code — fewer defects than in all but one of the five commercial implementations of TCP/IP inspected by Reasoning as part of its study. Besides the Linux kernel, three of the implementations were part of commercial general-purpose operating systems and two were embedded in commercial telecommunications equipment, the company said..

Access to the inspection report can be obtained here.

 
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