Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:31:44 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: gill@topsecret.net (James Gill) Cc: tomb@securify.com, andrewr@slack.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Secure-FreeBSD" Idea Message-ID: <199908130431.OAA23238@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADGEENCOAA.gill@topsecret.net> from "James Gill" at Aug 12, 99 11:27:24 pm
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In some mail from James Gill, sie said: [...] > I digress... what's the feasability of comarketing the two OSes? I am > not the most knowledgeable as to the whole concept and direction of > FreeBSD, but perhaps fbsd could take a tack more aimed at what it > seems to currently do well, large and powerful servers and nbsd take > the hardened OS tack. TOGETHER WE COULD RULE THE WORLD! (or at least > have root access) I think you've got the wrong idea. OpenBSD's prime goal is for a secure OS. NetBSD's primarily goal is stability and portability although they seem to discover new security problems more often than OpenBSD people do. By that I mean problems which involve more than program X having a new buffer overflow problem. If you wanted my opinion of FreeBSD (and what's its goals were), it would be to be a better Linux than Linux - i.e. primarily focused on x86 support (I don't see FreeBSD on alpha as being anything serious - especially given the UltraSparc project failure), light weight, user friendly, etc. But maybe that's changing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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