From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 21:30:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC7C16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:30:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web21527.mail.yahoo.com (web21527.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.170.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C320B43D5F for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:30:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from time_to_hack@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040720213002.95461.qmail@web21527.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.248.72.254] by web21527.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:30:02 PDT Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: bsd hack To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: FreeBSD Security features X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:30:03 -0000 Hi, I have been trying to understand the security features of FreeBSD. I have read the FreeBSD handbook... I have seen that FreeBSD is mentioned as the most secure OS to use. I dont understand why it's security features are considered to be better than that of the other OS's. I'm kind of new to this and haven't done much research on this. I'm basically trying to understand the security features of FreeBSD... Can somebody give me pointers to a few useful links which will help me in understanding the security features in different OS's and how FreeBSD differs. -HKR --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!