Hi Blake, On 02/06/07, Blake Finley, MA, ABD-2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am primarily concerned about security from internet hacking, and am therefore considering setting up a separate internet computer with BSD.
Are you trying to secure a network with a secure gateway? To have a secure PC? What is your goal exactly? What is your association with Open BSD? with Linux? They are both BSDs...I am not developing any of both, but i don't see any reason why not adding a very good piece of code from the Free to the Open BSD or the opposite. I am 99.9% sure that the association between them is not competition. What do you mean by "Linux"? Do you have any distro in mind? anyway... FreeBSD is what it claims to be *clearly* on top of the page: http://www.freebsd.org and Linux is what it claims to be on http://www.linux.org (you need to read a little more than the top of the page here though, to see what it is). Also check this link: http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html (*press "go"*) Are there copyright or other related issues involved? It appears that FreeBSD is the most closely associated with the original
Berkeley programmers. (1)
I was told that OpenBSD provided the best security. But I also note
that changes have occurred at OBSD, and wonder if this is still true.
It would have been better if the above questions were posted in other, separate posts... :) These are irrelevant ((1) - see below) "to security from internet hacking" Are you trying to decide if BSD is more secure than a Linux distro? It seems to me that you place random questions/information here and this way you can only get random replies and information that will remain information and won't help you being "secured" (considering that you said that primarily you are concerned about security) If you know/learn how to setup a system and keep it up to date and monitor it appropriately and spend a lot of time on it and many other things, then it will be as much "secured" as possible from attacks. ...Supposedly, you decide that any of the OSs in question is the "most secure": You spend 3 days setting it up and you do nothing else for the next 2 years. Your system won't be secure, no programmers will be responsible for this and the copyrights usually claim/provide the software "AS IS", whatever its name is. (1)Programmers try to give you as much functionality and options ( obviously along with security) possible. You are responsible to disable functionality that you don't need, to install the patches/updates they implement when vulnerabilities are found, etc. If for example they exclude things (i.e a driver) from the OS, for security, you would have an OS with limitations. Their goal is to write nice, neat, secure code. Not preventing people from attacking you nor you from not installing security updates to your computer. It would be like asking the hardware vendor not to put a network card in your computer, for security from "internet hacking". The answer you want though is this: "FreeBSD is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX(r) developed at the University of California, Berkeley" which is BY FAR more impressive **in my opinion* *than this: http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/ :P Regards Spiros _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
