[afnog] FW: Deep study: The world's safest computing environment

ALAIN PATRICK AINA aalain at trstech.net
Thu Nov 4 10:00:26 EAT 2004



> That's not a particularly useful statistic though, given that Linux and
> FreeBSD both run mostly the same set of apps, and usually it's the apps
> which have the security holes. 

Yes, but not always the same version and default config.

>Part of this is going to reflect that:
>
> * More computers run Linux than FreeBSD
> * FreeBSD has fewer services turned on by default than some Linux
> distributions (e.g. things like lpd)

agree

> * And just maybe, FreeBSD admins are more competent than Linux admins on
> the average.

Not maybe. It is an evidence for me 

--alain


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