From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 0:45:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from speechpro.com (crt-gw.infopro.spb.su [195.201.254.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED3237B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from igorr by sysadm.stc with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Sa6o-0005JP-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:47:18 +0300 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:47:18 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor compatability Message-ID: <20020121084718.GD19370@sysadm.stc> Reply-To: igorr@speechpro.com Mail-Followup-To: Igor Roboul , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org> <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020118101046.GA4126@irrelevant.org> <3C487011.3DC527E9@citystamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C487011.3DC527E9@citystamp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:57:21PM -0500, Matthew P. Marino wrote: > run a workstation with some basic web server type apps on PPC hardware, just > stick with OSX. If your goal is to run a server with a wider range of GPL'd apps GPL'd? > and you WANT to learn how it all works, stick with one of the BSD's on Intel. If you wish GPL'd then stick with Linux on Intel. But don't forget that NetBSD works on PPC, and OpenBSD works too. Running servers on PPC give you some additional security, because even if some program has hole alowing executing shell code, but most crackers use shellcode for Intel comatible platforms, so your server-program will just SIGILLed instead of giving access to your server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message