On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, maricha spewed into the ether:
> I have heard that BSD Unix is far more reliable from a security point
> of view than Linux.. any opinions..
Depending on how you configure the machines, BSD can be more or less
secure.
Please go to http://www.securityfocus.com and search there for bug
reports on [Free|Open|Net]BSD and from [*]Linux
Then search the same site for a comparitive rating question on the
default security of operating systems.
I remember only the final answer from that discussion:
"The security of any system is only as good as its administrator"
(You can make a hardened NT firewall, and an insecure OpenBSD machine
-- each takes an equal amount of work, the BSD machine probably less ;)
).
Devdas Bhagat
--
When I say the magic word to all these people, they will vanish forever.
I will then say the magic words to you, and you, too, will vanish --
never to be seen again.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Between Time and Timbuktu"
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