From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 30 13:38:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F3537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yama.geminisolutions.com (yama.geminisolutions.com [216.57.214.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0847343E65 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (0-1pool23-161.nas8.bellevue1.wa.us.da.qwest.net [67.3.23.161]) by yama.geminisolutions.com (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8UKbGPV028549; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:38:22 -0700 Subject: Re: Rackspace-like provider for FreeBSD? From: Michael DeMan To: "Kenneth P. Stox" , Ralph Forsythe Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1033417775.81362.53.camel@stox.sa.enteract.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.johncompanies.com On 9/30/02 1:29 PM, "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:32, Ralph Forsythe wrote: >> Too insecure?? >> >> Uhh... >> >> What's their alternative? Linux easily tops FreeBSD on *nix advisories, >> anything MS-based blows their theory out the door. About the only stuff >> better would be perhaps NetBSD, and for sure OpenBSD. >> >> That's either a line of BS, or they hired some linux-only admin who is >> afraid of anything BSD and just wants to get rid of it. At least IMHO. >> Security is not a major problem on FreeBSD however, at least for an admin >> with half a brain. > > That's my take on it, too. I was simply shocked when they told me that > was the reason they were no longer selling FreeBSD machines. I guess > they are only hiring admin's with quarter brains these days. :-( > > -Ken Stox > stox@imagescape.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > Michael F. DeMan Director of Technology OpenAccess Internet Services 1305 11th St., 3rd Floor Bellingham, WA 98225 Tel 360-647-0785 x204 Fax 360-738-9785 michael@staff.openaccess.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message