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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!198.53.145.10!news2.interlog.com!n1tor.istar!tor.istar!east.istar!news.globalserve.net!not-for-mail From: Gene Wilburn <njo@interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 17:40:46 -0500 Organization: Globalserve Communications Inc. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <33345FEE.5856@interlog.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> <5gqtse$2am@news.sockets.net> <ysd67yma8a1.fsf@tuborg.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Reply-To: njo@interlog.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin458.globalserve.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165904 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89567 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2870 A question for experienced users of both Linux and freeBSD -- how would you compare the out-of-the-box security of each? A recent thread indicated that many distributions of Linux could use a serious tightening up of security. Is this also the case with freeBSD, or do you have to spend a lot of time tweaking security there too? --- Gene Wilburn, Toronto, ON, Canada | njo@interlog.com Northern Journey Online: http://www.interlog.com/~njo/