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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 1 Aug 1995 06:05:17 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3v3meh$mol@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <3v6iao$mbl@hydra.msgi.com> <3vk5oi$6sf@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <3vk5oi$6sf@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>I don't mean FreeBSD or Linux is more vulnerable, but for example, I know
>Sun (or AT&T ?) seems to put some effort on the security issue of SunOS 5.x.
>Some actions are turned off by default for security. In this case, would it
>be more advisable to buy commercial OS ?
The default FreeBSD installation is already quite secure and can
easily compete with commercial OS's in that regard. Although
commercial OS vendors like Sun are paid to fix security flaws in their
systems, you can't really beat the turnaround time that the free OS's
offer when faced with releasing new versions or code patches.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org