CESG, the Information Security Arm of GCHQ (Govt. of UK), conducted a series of tests in the last few months to review a set of 11 operating systems which currently run on various devices such as desktops, laptops, servers, mobile phones and tablets.
In a direct comparison with 10 other operating systems, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, scored the highest in these assessments. The other operating systems which were compared are : Android 4.2, Samsung devices with Android 4.2, Apple iOS6, Apple OSX 10.8, Blackberry 10.1(EMM Corporate), Blackberry 10.1(EMM Regulate), Google Chrome OS 26, Windows 7 and 8, Windows 8 RT and Windows Phone 8.
