On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:06:34PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > ><rant> >If you're really interested in learning Unix, and learning it correctly >by studying audited (not just "security" audited, but plain bug audited, >since many security related bugs start life as seemingly innocuous but >sloppy code) sources (this is OpenSource, right?), and referencing >up-to-date man pages that actually have examples in them, then install >OpenBSD, and use it. Then you'll be able to help others who are stuck >behind (or rather in front of) their "Oh so sweet" frontends, binary >packages, and bloated, poorly documented software. ></rant> > <inserts tongue into cheek> Well heck, while you're at it, why are you using a thirty-year-old cruftball OS that's been deprecated by its original authors? One that still supports such security holes as "root" accounts, lame networked file systems, all-or-nothing authentication, crackable passwords, and bundled software from a bunch of pot-smoking UCB undergrads? Why not move up to a next-generation efficient coherently designed OS, with *zero* security exploits in TWELVE YEARS of deployment? http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html </insert> -- UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
