Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:13:24 +0000 () From: ywliu <team_fbf@pristine.com.tw> To: ishort@pcm.co.za (Irvine Short) Cc: markm@iafrica.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Paydirt!! Message-ID: <199602081913.TAA02199@neptune.pristine.com.tw> In-Reply-To: <51E94D11F11@pcm.co.za> from "Irvine Short" at Feb 8, 96 09:35:26 am
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> > Congrats! > > What sort of problems were they having with Linux? > > > > > I have got my company (the largest commercial ISP in za) to agree > > > > to go FreeBSD instead of Linux! > > > Also, I have successfully persuaded my company (an ISP) to switch from Linux to FreeBSD because : 1) Linux is not that stable. This is controvercial because a lot of people claim Linux IS very stable. But the most important one is : 2) FreeBSD is more secure. Linux has much more security holes. The developers of Linux networking codes are proud that they make their programs from scratch. True but also more vulnerable, unlike BSD, which has been under attack for several years. So FreeBSD is much more secure. Yen-Wei Liu
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