Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:52:14 +0200 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay Message-ID: <1234296489.20050330065214@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1112143621.661.18.camel@orker.orbweavers.co.uk> References: <154613622.20050327112206@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEOLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <4247420E.1030307@makeworld.com> <405056772.20050328020101@wanadoo.fr> <b59dd13095fa4194699ba40fde8f2e36@chrononomicon.com> <1965951106.20050329180958@wanadoo.fr> <a37ff467011f3f0e5f2f1fc80575226b@chrononomicon.com> <91674201.20050329230028@wanadoo.fr> <1112143621.661.18.camel@orker.orbweavers.co.uk>
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Martin McCann writes: > then stop complaining to a list of 'kiddies', and use that. MS doesn't support FreeBSD. > If you have never encountered the term FLOSS, you are not the open > source user you claim to be, it is a common term. I've probably encountered it, I just didn't retain it. The IT world is full of acronyms. > And what open source developer does anything but 'doing it at a loss'?. Very few, which is one reason why open source is not a serious competitor to proprietary software in many cases. > Statistics will prove whatever you want it to prove, most people with > intelligence look beyond the given conclusion, and make their own. If you don't look at statistics to draw your conclusions, what do you look at? > Depends on what you want as a desktop - desktop != WIMP. Most people want a GUI on the desktop, and UNIX isn't designed for that. There are fundamental conflicts between the design requirements of a desktop and those of a server. One cannot do both well. > Alternatively, many of the features of windows seem to match those of > already available software. And so on, and so on. GUIs on the desktop predate the Mac and Windows interfaces by many years. > So what defines a secure system, if not the fact it is less prone > breakens? The NCSC criteria are a good start. Windows NT and its successors satisfy more of them than UNIX. -- Anthony
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