On Jan 21, 2010, at 01:16 , [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:Hopefully you're just talking about modern linux desktop distros. Cuz windows and osx are pretty loose about opening things up to the network. I don't know any OS with worse security than OSX. I'll qualify that by sayingby default, OSX has no firewall enabled at all, and bonjour happilybroadcasts to everyone, "Bonjour, everybody! Here's a list of what servicesI'm running..."yes, I was talking linux. I haven't seen OSX advertised with seperate server or desktop distros, and even with windows there's not much difference.
There is in fact a separate OSX Server product. I can't speak to its security, but what little I know about it makes me dubious at best.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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