> >Sun Cobalt has a history of releasing packages that either don't work, >or break security, or break functionality. It's a sad but true fact >that's well documented in past posts to this and other Cobalt lists.
I have seen next to nothing that has not worked on a system that has not been modified. I have only had one problem ever with an update and that was OS2. It made a change to a man and I got an error from logcheck. None otherwise. I have added ipchains, logcheck, portsentry, ssh. I have not otherwise been in there modifying the system. About the only change made manually was for the parsing of files. I have basically stayed out of the conf files many people live in. So, I disagree with the packages not working and breaking other things. They do have a problem when YOU modify other things yes. > > Sure, other systems may be more secure, but those people who don't use for > > example external firewalls should think about their philosophy of security > > first before discussion security features of OSes. Our machines all work > > behind sophisticated firewalls and we don't grant shell access to any > > customer, so we simply don't have those security problems. > >Most of us have our systems in colocation and don't have the luxury of a >firewall to be behind. Please let us know a bit about your >"sophisticated firewall", as I'd love to build one for our colocation >customers to be able to use. Basically he hosts plain old html pages without any extra functionality. Me too. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
