From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 06:21:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11440 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA11431 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA13337; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:21:07 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA14965; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:21:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA05057; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:17:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604111317.PAA05057@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Solaris2.5 and BSD* - Facts To: djr@saa-cons.co.uk (Dave Roberts) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:17:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Dave Roberts" at Apr 10, 96 11:58:52 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Dave Roberts wrote: > AFAIK, the facts stand as follows (please corrent me if I am wrong). > BSD offers the immutable flag - Solaris does not. > BSD gives me source code - Solaris does not. > BSD allows me to compile stuff (ls etc) with static libs - Solaris does > not (if I remember a thread a while ago). > > That's all I can think of. Please don't mail back with arguments about > having source code or not, or static libraries vs dynamic, think those > have been beaten to death :) Sorry for bothering you again with the ``there's source code'' argument. After listening to a talk about firewalls at the last GUUG (German Unix Users Group) Sprint Meeting, i realized that kernel source is also interesting to have. You can remove all the security related ``extras'' in the kernel (IP forwarding, IP source routing, log connection attempts, ...) if you've got the source. And yes, _remove_, with vi in the source. This cannot be enabled again via an MIB variable. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)