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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:41:46 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
Cc:        FreeBSD-ADVOCACY <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/Solaris
Message-ID:  <20000604014145.A17973@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006040430140.17980-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:34:19AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006040430140.17980-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>

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* Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> [000604 01:34] wrote:
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> Disclaimer: I do NOT want to start an OS holy war.
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> I had a guy tonight tell me he's putting Solaris on his SMP x86 server
> because "it has far less exploits in the last 5 years than FreeBSD and
> that FreeBSD 'does not announce their security holes'"

A search on rootshell.com shows _55_ exploits for solaris and only
15 for FreeBSD.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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