Re: [ossig] 2 Malaysian organisations among 50 best uptimes

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

Ooopss, seems I made a mistake.
I had hoped everyone would jump with joy; either due to 'boleh' or due
to 'Open Source'; or both; and now this thing gets cut into pieces.

Looking into the pathology, you cannot compare apples with peaches.
RedHat advisories are not comparable with the Errata of the BSDs.
Because those don't contain all possible ports and packages; contrary to
RedHat. If you look at the Neophasis archive, there were quite a few
applications that have a flaw one way or another and are easily hosted
on FreeBSD. Dinesh wrote about 'kernel', not userland / ports.
RedHat looks at the whole distro. End of 'defending' RedHat.

I've been running OpenBSD on a router that can't possibly be used with
floppyfw and so far it is pretty similar: no single security advisory
since it came out (First of May). But this only goes as far as the
OpenBSD standard distro is concerned - in the case of a router that's
pretty much all what is needed.

Uwe

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:39, Imran William Smith wrote:
> Maybe FreeBSD people  could send out a 'heartbeat' email, saying
> 
> "There were no advisories during the last week."  to give
> everybody a warm glowing feeling :)
> 
> I have had over 100 emails from Red Hat network about
> 'Errata Alerts' since December 2002...
> 
> 
> Imran
> 
> 
> 
> Yusmar Yahaya wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Imran William Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>You could argue that the best possible OS could dynamically load in all
> >>>security updates and would never require a reboot :)
> >>
> >>freebsd hasn't had a kernel vulnerabiity in quite a while. all vulns have
> >>been of ancillary daemons which would require a daemon restart, not a
> >>reboot. :)
> >>
> > 
> > not that I like seeing any vulns affecting FreeBSD, but the silence in the
> > Advisories' list gets to me :-)
> > 
> > it's been a while since the last advisory on FreeBSD sent out to the list.
> > (unless something's wrong with my email addy)
> > 
> > 
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> Imran William Smith
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