Contributed by Dengue on from the Buzzword-Compliant dept.
``2Cactus Development is a Phoenix-based Internet security firm operating in the open-source (i.e., Linux) arena. The company's cornerstone product, Secure BSD, is a comprehensive, kernel-based security solution currently being evaluated in pre-release form by a number of high profile companies and organizations. Secure BSD is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2000.'' http://www.2cactus.com/ "
Does anyone have any insight on what this development is about? And why does it seem like everyone addresses security by adding components to the architecture.
If the front door to your house was broken, would you address that by putting a wall in front of it? Or would you just fix the damn door?
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By Jan J () someone@somprivider.net on mailto:someone@somprivider.net
Not everyone is so enlightened as us that uses OpenBSD. They think Micorsoft and then Linux and that is the way it has always been done. =)
And whats wrong with putting up a small wall that anyone can jump over if your door i broken?
By knomevol () harmonictimbre@hotmail.com on mailto:harmonictimbre@hotmail.com
By _azure () on
Is security the next big thing?
_azure
By Chris () chris.smith@removethis.raytheon.co.uk on http://www.bsdstuff.fsnet.co.uk/
Convergence is the key to success here. I think all these brain-farting fools knowcking out new distros should concentrate on adding to an established base in the field they are looking at...In this case OpenBSD.
Please note that I am not biased towards OpenBSD - It's just the best product to do the job at hand.
Chris.
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By Jan J () jdoe@somewhere.com on mailto:jdoe@somewhere.com
I am happy I have found what works for me..
By capy () capybara@operamail.com on http://www.trustedbsd.org
Its bad enough that everyone thinks it is a cool idea to create their own, "new" BSD-Distribution.
But its even worse that their new toy is based on
FreeBSD. Why dont they integrate their stuff into
OpenBSD, which is already designed to be secure?
OpenBSDs code wasnt audited just for fun.
And by using FreeBSD they are limited to the
intel architecture. I dont think FreeBSD is a bad
OS, but in this case??
I really dont understand it, sorry. ?:
By Jason R. FInk () jrf@diverge.org on http://www.diverge.org/jrf/