Re: Security Comparisons

2007-11-10 Thread knitti
On 11/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of philosophy. Linux is about making all kinds of toys work in a hot-plug way and allow people to boast about their uptime. OpenBSD is about security. I would add usability (conciseness, least surprise and coherency) and thus

Re: Security Comparisons

2007-11-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:52:03PM +0100, knitti wrote: On 11/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of philosophy. Linux is about making all kinds of toys work in a hot-plug way and allow people to boast about their uptime. OpenBSD is about security. I would add usability

Re: Security Comparisons

2007-11-09 Thread Darren Spruell
On Nov 9, 2007 10:53 AM, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is off-topic, I apologize. Just tell me and I'll go away ;) I'm having discussions with a coworkers about moving to OpenBSD for Apache/PHP web hosting. Right now, we use various Linux distros. I have no problem with that. Linux

Re: Security Comparisons

2007-11-09 Thread new_guy
Darren Spruell wrote: Sadly, justifying the obvious through these means is often a requirement. Here's an approach you might consider. Take a best practice / standards guide such as from NIST: http://www.itl.nist.gov/lab/bulletns/bltndec02.htm

Re: Security Comparisons

2007-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:27:16PM -0800, new_guy wrote: Darren Spruell wrote: Sadly, justifying the obvious through these means is often a requirement. Here's an approach you might consider. Take a best practice / standards guide such as from NIST: