From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 9: 0:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9675B37B83B for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21515; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:01:58 -0500 Message-Id: <200008171601.LAA21515@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie" To: "cyberstorm" , , "Josh Paetzel" Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:07:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: BSD Inquiry... In-reply-to: <006301c00861$4a67cb20$56470ace@mark8> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Aug 00, at 10:39, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "cyberstorm" > To: > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:52 AM > Subject: BSD Inquiry... > > > > Hello. > > > > I'm a Linux user and was wondering why BSD hasn't hit mainstream > > yet??? > > There isn't a graphical X-based utility for every system admin task yet. > > > > The other question is... how does BSD compare to LINUX??? > > BSD is way better. > > > > For my last question... is there a variety of security software for > > this operating system, or does it use the same as Linux??? If not, > > would you recommend a firewall and antivirus[if needed]. > > > > FreeBSD comes with a built-in firewall. I don't think I've ever heard of a > UNIX virus. However, McAfee is selling their antivirus package for FreeBSD, although I think would be more valuable to admins who're using FreeBSD to serve PC users (FTP, or Samba). A FreeBSD virus? It's hard for viruses to propagate through unpriviliged accounts, and so much of the source is open, this would be difficult to get this started. -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message