From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 26 23: 5:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A5F37B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13eAVG-0000E2-00; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:15:38 -0600 Message-ID: <39D19089.6840F2A5@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:15:37 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Scott Cc: Bill Fumerola , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Scott wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > OTOH, if you want to install a secure system and don't know what you're > > doing, OpenBSD installs a much more secure configuration out of the box. > > The afterboot(8) man page helps a neophyte administrator figure out what > > they might want to do to continue securing their system. > > ROFL!!! I'm sorry, I realize this you were serious here, but when I read > I almost did fall down laughing. This part just kills me : > > "if you want to install a secure system and don't know what you're doing > ..." Keep right on laughing, while thinking about the staff of "IT Professionals" installing and maintaing the internet gateway at your bank, your city gov't, and your local utilities. It is not a laughing matter. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message