Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:21:50 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promoting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <3537657E.FC720698@ibm.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417110146.20933A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Konrad Heuer wrote: [snip] > b) For many institutions I think - and definitely for us as a computer > center open to the internet community - system security is very very > important. I believe that FreeBSD is not worse here but if the FreeBSD > community could state that FreeBSD is an operating system with high > security (knocking out Linux, NT and so on) the number of our FreeBSD > boxes would dramatically increase. Once again I'm not sure: How important > is system security for the core team? > My impression is that security is _very_ important to -core. Security fixes come out before I've seen announcements of the hole anywhere else, and I read all the trade papers. Even moe than that, though, the basic fact that this is BSD and it is _open_ _source_, says that any holes that exist _will_ get discovered. See the great article on Security from SysAdmin magazine, the URL is posted on http://www.freebsd.org/press.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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