From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 7 17:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC75337B5AB for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 25363 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 00:18:47 -0000 Received: from du07.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.7) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 00:18:47 -0000 Message-ID: <39667346.1A97EA35@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:18:14 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Joseph Scott , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707095841.047c6ee0@localhost> <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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