Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:03:33 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: Jeff Palmer <scorpio@drkshdw.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <15551.27877.743534.149538@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20020418154338.D23267@rain.macguire.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020417230144.032ad390@nospam.lariat.org> <200204171923.g3HJNga58899@freefall.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <012901c1e725$da237e90$0286a8c0@jeffrey> <20020418154338.D23267@rain.macguire.net>
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> FreeBSD currently does not enable easy maintainance between critical release > points for large server environments. Using cvsup to maintain source builds > for environments like these ( say 400 servers or more ) is not only > unacceptable without an on staff developer and release engineer, it is > infeasible. > > For those of you who would be quick to note that "Corporations with > 400 servers should be able to afford a developer and release engineer" > please note that 400 NT, Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX servers can be > maintained by a small team of administrators, and do not require these > extra resources. So, for 400 NT, Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX servers you allow a small team, and for FreeBSD you don't even allow a single engineer? Seems kind of a double standard. And as a long-time administrator, I disagree that FreeBSD is more difficult to maintain releases across systems. I've done Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and (ack!) Linux, and I find that FreeBSD is second to Solaris, but barely so. However, Solaris doesn't even provide anything remotely close to what Brett is asking, and they're getting paid alot for the OS than FreeBSD is getting paid. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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