* Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca> [2008-12-30 02:39]: > > crappy applications are still crappy applications on OpenBSD, but > > worse on pretty much any other OS. > IIUC, with ports right now, to get security fixes you have to run > current and then you end up getting the latest verions of the upstream
the lack of -stable ports/packages is indeed very sad. > With this in mind, is it still a safe or fair assumption that if you > only want a box that does web browsing in the most secure mode possible > (for a web browsing box), lets say for something like internet banking, > is OpenBSD + Firefox from ports going to be more secure than e.g. Debian > base + Iceweasel (their off-brand Firefox)? I'd use the OpenBSD/ff combo over whateverlinux/ff any time, even if the ff on OpenBSD is older, yes. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
