Dustin Puryear wrote: > I manage both Linux and BSD systems, and the same "third party application" > vulnerabilities affect both. I am not sure why one would survive an attack > any better than the other. Now as far as the security of the operating > systems itself, that may be another matter. > > In one sentence: I don't think BSD is any more secure than Linux when it > comes to the security of the applications. >
I think the core unix system is very secure. It's all the other apps you layer on top. ftp servers, apache, php, mysql, web-scripts.
