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#! rnews 1382 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!castle.nando.net!imci5!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD: Differences? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:46:22 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM, Concord, California Lines: 15 Message-ID: <310D321E.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <4drq9h$o2m@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4eijr5$mrt@venus.os.com> <xcdrawjhx2v.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: westhill.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Soren Dayton wrote: > How much of the security is intrinsic in the operating system? Has > the syslog bug been patched on Linux yet? (for example) Another > observation that might be worth making is that most of the common > security packages are developed on a BSD 4.4 system it seems. It's probably more true to say that they were developed on 4.3 BSD derrived systems (e.g. SunOS). There is very littel s/w developed on 4.4BSD, rather just s/w that has been made 4.4 aware Yours Gary -- FreeBSD core team