From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 15:39:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA7B16A44D; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:39:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from redqueen.elvandar.org (redqueen.evilcoder-services.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C8943D81; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:39:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elvandar.intranet [127.0.0.1]) by redqueen.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559642954AB; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from redqueen.elvandar.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (redqueen.evilcoder-services.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33624-03; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E1135A.5080603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:40:10 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: remko@FreeBSD.org References: <200507191910.j6JJAg6a077939@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050722123418.GE594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722142517.GA21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E10C08.8070804@FreeBSD.org> <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the evilcoder-services.org maildomain Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Murray Stokely , Marc Fonvieille , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/marketing os-comparison.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: remko@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:39:47 -0000 Remko Lodder wrote: > Murray Stokely wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:08:56PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: >> >>>>> This update disturbs me. By mentioning CERT advisories without an OS >>>>> separation gives me the feeling that the document is missing its >>>>> objective. Why not just give a link to CERT advisories list then? >>>>> The previous "CERT Advisories in 2000 that affected Linux" and "CERT >>>>> Advisories in 2000 that affected Windows" parts were an interesting >>>>> advocacy argument. I don't think phpBB or Oracle vulns well push >>>>> people >>>>> to use FreeBSD, etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, I agree that a full list of CERT advisories of the last year is >>>> less useful than the several years old breakdown of CERT advisories >>>> grouped by affected operating system. >>>> >>>> Also, surely such information is provided via XML somewhere and so if >>>> it was desired it should be automatically syndicated, not copied in to >>>> this document manually. >>>> >>>> - Murray >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Feel free to adjust it to better needs. I am not really into advocacy >>> and stuff, just did what the PR asked us to do :-). >> >> >> >> Many PRs are better just closed than patched. >> Can you back it out and point out to the submitter that the whole >> point is in the OS comparison article is to show how FreeBSD is (or at >> least was several years ago when I wrote it) affected by far fewer >> CERT advisories than Windows or Red Hat Linux? >> >> If you don't want to do this, maybe have the submitter go through the >> advisories and group them by effected OS as before? >> >> - Murray > > > I will backout. > Done. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org Reporter DSINET ** remko@DSINet.org Founder Tienervaders ** remko@tienervaders.org