From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 6:35:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta05.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FE837B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k_greenwood1@sluggy.net) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta05.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3244548888; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id C56D036F9; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:33:24 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:33:24 -0800 (PST) From: K.Greenwood To: Kris Kennaway Cc: benf@nexgen.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD Strains Reply-To: k_greenwood1@sluggy.net X-Originating-Ip: [209.105.201.252] Message-Id: <20010306143324.C56D036F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just to clear the air, I meant in no way to impune the coding skills of the FreeBSD contributors. In past postings I have thanked them, and certainly feel that practically everyone on this list has more knowledge than do I. I am not, nor have I ever been a coder. I was just giving a generic answer that is gives an overall view of the BSD sterotypes. Apologies if this message is messy. Trying to compose in a shrunk- down web based email client is somewhat difficult. --- Kris Kennaway > wrote: >Part: 1 >
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:11:45PM -0800, K . Greenwood wrote:
>> Considering no one else has responded, I may as well give a generic response....
>> 
>> FreeBSD is a BSD that is based on the x86 architecture.
>> 
>> NetBSD is portable... to everything.
>> 
>> OpenBSD is secure.  Apparently, auditing of code is standard.
>
>Hey now, FreeBSD is secure too :-) It's true that OpenBSD have done
>more auditing work than FreeBSD has, but it's not like we're standing
>still here -- the FreeBSD auditing project is producing results.
>OpenBSD is a fine operating system, but in fact they have had a number
>of serious exploits in the past year which FreeBSD fixed a number of
>years ago or was never vulnerable to.
>
>Kris


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