Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:15:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <3DDF1CEF.B800AC55@mindspring.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> <014901c29297$74dc8040$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Alex writes: > > This policy doesn't help against security bugs. > > You can apply patches to correct security bugs, or you can configure your > system so that bugs are not relevant for your application. Both of which take you away from the configuration of the system as it is shipped from the vendor. If you have to do a heck of a lot of work, that kind of makes it a dubious benefit to have the OS preinstalled on the hardware, which is the main argument in favor of Windows. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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