Robert: I said the comment about *NIX to see if anyone would come forward about FreeBSD Secure Server. I would be very interested in tour process of pulling it together.
Are you going to do a weblog like you have with your fine art info? That info would be very useful for those of us who would rather find out the pitfalls others have stepped into. Drop me a personal email because I have some info which might interest you about FreeBSD. John O Robert C Wittig wrote: >Hello JohnO, > >Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:22:47 AM, you wrote: > >J> I don't really think it would be much better if a free *NIX OS and >J> API owned a really significant part of the dewsktop computing >J> world. The virus and worm developers would shift their target focus >J> and produce malicious coding to make those users life difficult. > >I'm an Open Source kind of person, so I may be prejudiced, but I think >Open Source code is a lot more secure than anything MS can produce, >because any developer who wants to, can read the source code, and >contribute their perspective to the debugging effort. That's a lot of >very sharp people contributing expertise to the project, over an >extended period of time. > >I have recently begun using FreeBSD 4.8 secure server, and it has been >around for a while, and is a cracker's nightmare, if it is being run >by a knowledgeable sysadmin... which I am *not*... yet.<g> >fortunately, I have an excellent coaching staff, pointing the way... >something that would cost thousands of dollars per year, with MSDN, >and is essentially free, in the FreeBSD community. > >Funny thing is, I have no intention of turning off my Windows 98se >box... it works great. In the next few months, I will hopefully have >my entire rag-tag network of retro-boxes and operating systems fully >networked together behind a gateway/router/firewall box... maybe an >old 386 or something. > >Good fun. > >-wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ >-weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ >A business is as honest as its advertising. >. > >To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. >Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. >More info can be found at; >http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > > > > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
