On 11-Sep-2003/13:58 -0500, B McAndrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Stop. Your response is nothing but pure fanboyism. This type of >>> advocacy is ignorant and does nothing to advance OSS in the industry. >>> Allow me to retort: >>> >> >>>> > Security MS = bad, linux=good > >Could someone staighten me out here. When did Unix based system become >the bastion of security? In a former lifetime, I used to work on >VAX/VMS for classified (as in military) work. I can't remember the >issues, but when we started moving off the VAX/VMS over to Unix >workstations, the IT security folks were not at all comfortable with the >security of Unix compared to the VAX/VMS. Does anyone have any insights >as to why that might be?
UNIX and Linux may work alike, but the development models are different enough that the security issues cannot be assumed to be the same. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
