Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:56:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cobalt blames linux for their security problems! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902271453520.68172-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199902271927.OAA26965@etinc.com>
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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Dennis wrote: > At 09:18 PM 2/27/99 +1030, you wrote: > >On Saturday, 27 February 1999 at 2:16:02 -0500, mike@seidata.com wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >>> There's a good idea.. use a free OS and then blame it for your problems.. > >> > >> Tell me about it... here's my response. > >> > >> <quote> > >> [snip] > >> </quote> > >> > >> I had actually looked into some of Cobalt's products... must say I've > >> lost quite a bit of respect for them as a result of their reponse to > >> this issue. Then again, what's to consider anyway... They don't run > >> FreeBSD. ;) > > > >They could just as well have run FreeBSD. The issue here is that they > >(or somebody else) are blaming the OS for their own mistakes. > > Well the RAQ is a RISC processor that FreeBSD doesnt support, so I dont > think that that was an option. Blaming an OS is an OK thing I think...you cant > as a vendor be expected to fix everything thats wrong....PCI shared memory on > secondary buses doesnt seem to work in FreeBSD2.2 (havent tried 3.1 yet)... > you have to blame the OS as its not practical to fix it yourself. Dennis, did you read enough of that article? Their problem was leaving around a .history file, it hadn't anything at all to do with pci probing. That article had more factual screwups (on both sides, to be fair) than I can believe ... let's not make it worse by skimming the facts to fit our moods. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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