Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:24:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: FreeBSD-ADVOCACY <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Solaris Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006050819520.80382-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006040430140.17980-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > Disclaimer: I do NOT want to start an OS holy war. > > I had a guy tonight tell me he's putting Solaris on his SMP x86 server > because "it has far less exploits in the last 5 years than FreeBSD and > that FreeBSD 'does not announce their security holes'" Just based on this paragraph I don't believe you will be able to win any sort of discussion with this person given these parameters. He could try to hammer FreeBSD coming and going. If you come up with stats that show 10x more holes in FreeBSD than in Solaris, then his first statement holds. In this case FreeBSD would have more "holes" than Solaris. If you come up with stats that show 10x more holes in Solaris than in FreeBSD then his section statement may hold. That FreeBSD simply doesn't have as many because they don't announce them. I'm afraid I don't have any stats to help one way or the other. However I'd try to get his concern a little more clearly defined before presenting any hard numbers/material. --- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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