Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:18:14 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <39667346.1A97EA35@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707095841.047c6ee0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071219290.19763-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > On a related note I saw this interesting article (didn't preserve the > link, it may be there on lwn.net or someplace) on how the big linux > distributors aren't themselves using a lot of the software they give > their public. For instance, they generally ship sendmail as the > default (or only) mailer, and wu-ftpd with its hole-of-the-month as > default ftp program; but most of them use qmail for email and proftpd > for ftp. (Not that proftpd has a much better security record.) There > were plenty of other examples, and it focussed especially on the > tendency of enabling lots of dangerous and exploitable services by > default; the article was worth reading and I hope lots of people at > redhat read it. Is this the link: http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000705.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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