Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:38:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Andrey Stepachev ( aka50)" <aka50@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me to find myself in FreeBSD mailing lists! Message-ID: <20000916163844.D4781@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <12245.000914@mail.ru>; from aka50@mail.ru on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:53:00AM %2B0400 References: <12245.000914@mail.ru>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:53:00AM +0400, Andrey Stepachev ( aka50) wrote:
> Hello freebsd-questions,
Hello there, Andrey.
> I am new user of this exellent system. Before I am working with Linux,
> but IMHO, FreeBSD is more secure system.
<silly joke>
There is no such thing as a "secure system". The one and most secure
system of them all is out of any network, unplugged by the main power,
and buried six feet under the ground in a room with walls approximately
three feet thick.
</silly joke>
Seriously, now. Linux can be secure. FreeBSD can be secure too. The
most important differences are other. For instance, how do you upgrade
a Slackware Linux box, keeping all the package dependencies right, after
a zillion .tar.gz packages have been compiled manually by the admin?
> Moreover, I want to hack this system, but I can't solve some
> problems, when I programming for system internals.
Hacking your own system sources is nice. But before you start playing
around with FreeBSD, shouldn't you allow for some time to get acquainted
with how the system works? I still remember the day I submitted a
problem report that was not a bug, as it was evident, when Sheldon
explained to me how mailwrapper works.
Start using the system. Read the documentation that comes with it.
Read articles on the Web about it. Use it. Learn using it better.
Continue learning using it better. Repeat...
> I need information is this aspects:
> 1. TCP/IP stack and how to write programms using MIB
Uh, this falls under the category "kernel hacking", unless I am
mistaken. I think that it might be a bit dangerous for you to hack your
kernels, at least for some reasonable amount of time.
However, you have all the sources. None can stop you from reading them,
modifying them, building your own kernel or world, and booting into
them. The word "Free" in FreeBSD seems more and more appealing, doesn't it?
> 2. Security. (I am admin :) ).
You will find that things are strikingly similar to what you did in
Linux, in this area. Simple rules like "do not run services that you do
not need", or "use backups", or even "do not use 'root' for every day
things, like reading mail or news", still apply.
> 3. Integration with other systems (such as Windoze and Mac).
Samba works great for me, when I want to talk to Windows.
For Macintosh'es I do not know. Never worked with any of these beasts.
> 4. Monitoring systems with SNMP (but not only).
> 4. Common news.
This was probably meant to be "5. Common news", but anyway. There are a
lot of places to find out about FreeBSD news.
o First of all the mailing lists that freebsd.org hosts.
Read in http://www.freebsd.org/ about them, and subscribe to any
of them that seem to interest you.
o The http://www.freebsd.org/ site itself.
o The Daily and Monthly editions of DaemonNews
http://daily.daemonnews.org/
http://www.daemonnews.org/
Welcome to FreeBSD :-)))
Have fun using our favorite OS.
- giorgos
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