On 20 Mar 2003, Marvin Pascual wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 17:45, Ian C. Sison wrote: > > > > Aw c'mon, don't be frustrated 8) Ikaw na lang ang tanging pagasa dyan > > para maimpluwenshahan ang BIR to use open source! You can make a > > difference, ONE MAN can make a difference, ika nga ni knight rider! > > I'm tired already, Ian. Bahala sila. =( > > They keep blaming Linux is insecure and I think it's the Sun people who > are giving those ideas to them. There are some Linux machines here but > they installed them using the INSTALL EVERYTHING using RedHat Linux. I > don't know if the Sun people are totally ignorant on what is a basic and > good practice of installing a server or they really did it so that once > that the particular service(s) has been compromised, they'll immediately > suggest for any Sun products that is similar of the compromised > service(s).
Why not ask for administrative access to the linux boxes so you can show them how secure a well administered box really is. Actually any box (even NT2K) ones can be secure as long as they are administered properly. This just proves to show that TPTB in the BIR do not know what they are talking about. Time to teach them a thing or two di ba? _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
