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Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
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John writes:

> Umm, that's called "stable", not "secure".

A system that is unstable is insecure as well.  It is vulnerable to DoS attacks,
for example.

> Then again, they have so many problems with it
> that I'm tempted to at least put a FreeBSD
> gateway/nat box in their house to eliminate all the
> network problems at least. :)

A router is cheaper.


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