From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 03:29:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A49C37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kyblik.pieskovisko.sk (kyblik.pieskovisko.sk [213.215.72.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3729443FF9 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frankie@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk) Received: (qmail 17531 invoked by uid 19508); 25 Jun 2003 10:29:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:29:11 +0200 From: "Michal F. Hanula" To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030625102911.GF66485@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk> Mail-Followup-To: "Michal F. Hanula" , questions@freebsd.org References: <20030616034216.AF44B341B4@www.fastmail.fm> <20030616051310.41F5C6D729@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030616051310.41F5C6D729@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: key barriers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:29:13 -0000 --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:13:10PM -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote: > I like being able to browse to www.debian.org/security and to know that= =20 > on certain days as many as 5 patches are released. And that with a=20 > single command I can apply all the patches I need. >=20 > Now, FreeBSD has a similar page freebsd.org/security but it doesn't list= =20 > as many bugs. Does that mean FreeBSD has fewer holes? Or does it mean= =20 > it takes longer to fix them in FreeBSD? Or that people are not testing= =20 > the security of BSD as much as Debian? I don't know. Short aswer: FreeBSD has fewer holes. Long answer: FreeBSD has fewer holes in the base OS than Debian has in all the packages. Which is quite obvious and doesn't mean anything at all. m&f --=20 What do you care what other people think? --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE++Xl24PY2BaN84VwRArPUAJ9rWGVaLN3kE/DSu2qLfLyQ4kBv0ACgg5S/ ZrCUkP5SScz4P7Grcj6BG4Y= =fsi2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg--