Contributed by grey on from the cloder w/o password means I take the rap for flamewars today? dept.
Today I came across an article on ZDNet mentioning OpenBSD. It is called de Raadt, the suits, and the rebellion, in which Paul Murphy writes that Solaris has had "essentially no external exploits", and thus Solaris's security record is comparable to OpenBSD's.
That's awfully crappy journalism even by ZDNet's low standards. I've asked Murphy to issue a correction to his article. You readers should let Murphy what you think.
Oh, and there is a BSDNews article which references the ZDnet article. Talk about the echo chamber.
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By Nate (65.94.60.22) on
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By Anonymous Coward (70.134.104.122) on
Thanks!
By Charles (216.229.170.65) on
By Noryungi (82.127.29.248) n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on
Solaris may have a security record just as good as OpenBSD (ahem), but I know which one I can afford and which one is the most responsive on the kind of hardware I can afford. And it is definitely not Solaris.
And before people start to flame me, yes, I use, install, configure, update and administer both OpenBSD and Solaris machines. Sun may be untouchable on the high-end, but the fact they are losing huge market share to open-source OSes running on x86 or AMD64 on the low and medium segments of the market reveals how overpriced their hardware and software offering is.
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By takahide (84.217.110.36) takahide@openbsd.se on
You are wrong.
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By cruel (62.221.44.170) on
http://lwn.net/Articles/175793/
By Gimlet (70.130.156.194) on
Their old gear is great, though, and of course our favorite OS makes it even better.
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By Anonymous Coward (70.17.143.232) on
"The first reaction most folks have to the performance is, frankly, disbelief. A while back I got into a spat with the technologists that built the machine about whether we could fairly call them 9.6Ghz machines (as a measure of clock frequency of the chip). Paul Murphy has an interesting analysis of whether that's a fair descriptor (I say interesting because he says we're underhyping the performance - a first for the industry!)."
By cruel (195.68.219.2) on
I am not familar with Solaris. More of this: I even don't want to be.
Because Sun (Intel, HP, Adaptec, IBM and more) has good mimicry skills. Mimicry means they are pseudo-friendly for open-source community. They are open enough untils they are in profit with this.
So I don't want to play in their chameleons' games. That's because OpenBSD model (due to security/freedom ratio) is my choice.
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By cruel (195.68.219.2) on
- Sun is to promote security model,
- Sun thinks "there is one big security player already - OpenBSD",
- Sun need "good" PR shit to show:
a) Sun is the best of the best of the best,
b) OpenBSD team is just a street gang, not skilled programmers.
Man, who need's to recall as they did?
"Back in 1994 de Raadt got in trouble with his then colleagues in the netBSD group and was basically read out of the community. If you're interested in the details, he's got everything you want to know on-line and I think you'll find it doesn't exactly rebound to the credit of the people involved."
If you want to do PR, take the shit and put it on the opponent's head. This is dirty game I don't want to play.
Man, why don't Paul Murphy recall 6-month release cycle? Because it will be anti-PR: strong release cycle means team with skilled programmers, not street gang...
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By Anonymous Coward (147.249.60.21) on
Please learn English before posting again.
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By cruel (62.221.44.170) on
and i'd like to THANK to that "someone": now we have OpenBSD.
i hop ya'll anda stan my pur engla...
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By andrew fresh (66.185.224.6) andrew@mad-techies.org on http://openbsd.somedomain.net