From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jun 4 1:41:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA03237B88E for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e548fkf08034; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:41:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Heckaman Cc: FreeBSD-ADVOCACY Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Solaris Message-ID: <20000604014145.A17973@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:34:19AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Heckaman [000604 01:34] wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Disclaimer: I do NOT want to start an OS holy war. > > 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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message