From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jun 4 1:34:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E6C837BD05 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 17990 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jun 2000 08:34:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jun 2000 08:34:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 04:34:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: FreeBSD-ADVOCACY Subject: FreeBSD/Solaris Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Disclaimer: I do NOT want to start an OS holy war. I had a guy tonight tell me he's putting Solaris on his SMP x86 server because "it has far less exploits in the last 5 years than FreeBSD and that FreeBSD 'does not announce their security holes'" Now, I don't believe this and was ahem, offended to say the least. My quesiton is, does anyone have any hard statistics on matters like this. I would like to have something well thought out to present to him. Opinions? PLEASE do not make a flame/holy war out of this post. I just want to know the facts on if there are any good stats and comparisons out there for me to reference. Matt Heckaman matt@arpa.mail.net http://www.lucida.qc.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5OhSMdMMtMcA1U5ARAhLQAKDSNBINp4/IJCBshye9pCHvXeQXuQCgyJiv fRvTpjcKiz18e91mA/9ePic= =ZmXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message