From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 22 22:18:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC1637B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A168F43E91 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0024.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.24] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FTcn-0003Kr-00; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:18:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDF1CEF.B800AC55@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:15:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> <014901c29297$74dc8040$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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