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FreeBSD Security Fundamentals Presentation at Toor
Justin Lundy writes: "Last weekend Sean Lewis from Subterrain Security Group (SSG) presented a lecture on FreeBSD Security Fundamentals at Toorcon 2001 in San Diego, CA. It covers securelevels, suexec, chroot and jail, nosuid, rc.conf settings and special sysctl values. The presentation is available at http://www.subterrain.net/presentations/."
Its just damn nice to see that there are still people who give a damn about security without taking away privacy. He makes some interesting points....but theres really nothing new there. At least its the first article in a while that mentions security without worrying about backdoors put there intentionally by BIG BROTHER (TM) hehe.
...is that because no one reads it, the sites linked in the article won't get slashdotted
mjl.
course, then all the linux zealots (sorry to you normal linux lovers, it's the 10% that piss me off) would just whine "can't we put this in a BSD section" ....christ, that's what put all this good info hidden away like this in the first place.
Evans Data study announces that BSD is one of the most popular embedded operating systems
Evans Data Corporation, a market research company focused on the software development community, announced in their mbedded Systems Developer Survey that BSD Unix will grow to be the #5 most popular embedded operating system in 2002 -- up from this year, when BSD did not even appear on the chart. Wasabi Systems is a developer of NetBSD, the number one BSD operating system in the embedded market space.
Embedded operating systems are used in products where computers aren't visible to the end-user, such as consumer electronics (PDAs, cell phones), household appliances, and higher-end products such as Internet boxes and servers.
The Evans report surveyed 500 embedded systems developers to study multiple aspects of embedded systems' development, including hardware and software platforms, Linux, Java and open source software, types of applications, embedded databases and development tools. Developers indicated that open source code, royalty-free licensing and a large community of knowledgeable developers were cited as key benefits.
Evans Data Corporation provides custom quantitative and qualitative research, as well as subscriptions to the North American Developer Survey, the International Developer Survey, the Enterprise Development Management Issues survey series, the Linux Developer series, the Database Developer Survey, the Wireless Developer Survey and the Embedded Systems Developer Survey.
The truth is out, and it won't be contained. *BSD is thriving.
I run BSD!!!
?toor tog
heh...seriously...i'm assuming that's where they got "Toor" from...'root' backwards...
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
Thanks to the developers and everyone else involved in the BSD effort. NetBSD reduces paranoia in a scary world.