From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 15:35:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CE816A455; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:35:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from redqueen.elvandar.org (redqueen.evilcoder-services.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB74F43D4C; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elvandar.intranet [127.0.0.1]) by redqueen.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C395E2954AB; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:35:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from redqueen.elvandar.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (redqueen.evilcoder-services.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33371-04; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:35:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:36:35 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <200507191910.j6JJAg6a077939@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050722123418.GE594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722142517.GA21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E10C08.8070804@FreeBSD.org> <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the evilcoder-services.org maildomain Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/marketing os-comparison.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: remko@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:36:00 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:08:56PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: > >>>>This update disturbs me. By mentioning CERT advisories without an OS >>>>separation gives me the feeling that the document is missing its >>>>objective. Why not just give a link to CERT advisories list then? >>>>The previous "CERT Advisories in 2000 that affected Linux" and "CERT >>>>Advisories in 2000 that affected Windows" parts were an interesting >>>>advocacy argument. I don't think phpBB or Oracle vulns well push people >>>>to use FreeBSD, etc. >>> >>> >>>Yes, I agree that a full list of CERT advisories of the last year is >>>less useful than the several years old breakdown of CERT advisories >>>grouped by affected operating system. >>> >>>Also, surely such information is provided via XML somewhere and so if >>>it was desired it should be automatically syndicated, not copied in to >>>this document manually. >>> >>> - Murray >> >>Hi, >> >>Feel free to adjust it to better needs. I am not really into advocacy >>and stuff, just did what the PR asked us to do :-). > > > Many PRs are better just closed than patched. > > Can you back it out and point out to the submitter that the whole > point is in the OS comparison article is to show how FreeBSD is (or at > least was several years ago when I wrote it) affected by far fewer > CERT advisories than Windows or Red Hat Linux? > > If you don't want to do this, maybe have the submitter go through the > advisories and group them by effected OS as before? > > - Murray I will backout. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org Reporter DSINET ** remko@DSINet.org Founder Tienervaders ** remko@tienervaders.org