From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 16:11:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A5316A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:11:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E4043D3F for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:11:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gbentley@uk2.net) Received: from [81.174.174.115] (helo=[192.168.7.8]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cxp0u-000JhR-Br for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:11:56 +0000 Message-ID: <42064227.1050705@uk2.net> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:13:27 +0000 From: Graham Bentley Organization: Custom PC North West User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20050206120057.D15B816A50F@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050206120057.D15B816A50F@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Leaving FreeBSD for Linux - Please Don't Hurt Me X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gbentley@uk2.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:11:59 -0000 >>On the negative side of things for Linux, some >>distros (not all of them) >>are very insecure. I noticed insecure older >>versions of tools like >>OpenSSL, ISCA DHCP, SAMBA, etc. included with the >>distros like RedHat. >>These should be updated ASAP, either through the pay >>facility or >>do-it-yourself. It's hard to keep track of what >>stuff they added, and >>what is broken/insecure. I think that with Linux, >>you have to become >>knowledgeable on how to harden and secure the >>system. I feel that >>FreeBSD seems a bit more secure out of the getgo. If you havent tried it yet www.trustix.org is an excellent Linux server distro with frequent updating ...and out of the box there are no services running at all. There are updated rpms and the guys runnning the development / maintainence are extremely knwoledgable. It is sponsored commercially but currently the iso is still freely downloadable and is GPL. The only drawback (if this is one) is that you had better know what you are doing or be prepared to read read and read and only then post to the mailing list as people expect you to have done your homework. Having said all that its one of the best Linux server distros thats still free (IMHO) and if you like FreeBSD then you will probably like it.