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'Unbreakable Linux'
Zadig writes "It appears as if Dell, Oracle, and Red Hat CEOs have decided to make 'Unbreakable Linux'. Could a giant arise amidst today's insecure and constantly patched linux world that could hold the title of Unbreakable Linux? I doubt it, but it will be fun to try, what are your thoughts?" There's a similar article on CNet.
Is Sam Jackson forcing Bruce Willis onto the dev team?
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
I have always found Redhat unbearable, so how is this new? You guys made a typo, right?
they won't sell this to Norwegian museums!
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet
Will it be called Titanux?
No intention to be troll...
Have I been wrong all this time?
A spokesman confirmed that 'Unbreakable Linux' machines will ship without any I/O devices and be encased in a 10 foot cube of concrete.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
and STOP shipping with WU-FTPD :-).
I think it means that IBM is going to have wake up and smite someone.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
I was about ready to say that Slashdot doesn't like Oracle, but then I remembered that it's the first Wednesday of the month. Silly me!
If you leave it in the box and install openbsd instead.
What secure, "unbreakable" apps would they put on there?
My list:
man
ls
ping
who
First, they will rewrite the kernel and all the GNU utils in Java. The X Window system will be rewritten in java as well, and all instances of gcc from the system will be stripped. Bash and associated shells will be removed from the system, instead providing a SQL> prompt. Remember, ls ~ == SELECT * FROM ~.
The whole thing will be packaged with Oracle's Java-based installer. After 40 days and nights of installation time, the machine will run so slow that no one would even consider breaking into it.
In summary, the entire package is estimated to cost $55,000 USD.
That michael was just trolled.
Dude! You're getting a PENGUIN!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
for i in `chkconfig --list | cut -f 1`; do
doneThen, echo -n > /etc/shadow
for i in `cat /etc/shells` ; do rm -f $i ; done
No hacking then!
Click here or here.
no joke! I don't understand how larry can say the term without expecting an awkward silence from people who remember the last time he uttered "unbreakable"!
man would that be an ugly looking icon.
Nah - MSDOS 3.1 (and nothing else) running on a 486 is far more reliable and secure, but probably not as useful. If you did't bother to switch it on it would be even more reliable and secure, and not much less useful. ;-)
Every bloody emperor has his hand up history's skirt [Peter Hammill/VdGG]
Is that .sig also intentionally misspelled?
This week a new seagoing vessel was announced, which "Mother Nature herself could not sink", according to its creators.
Where do I download clues?
-- RTFM:Slackware::Beer:Saturday
Give me 16 "Unbreakable Linux" PowerEdges and some damned fat pipes and I can design you a cluster that a nuclear attack probably couldn't take out.
Cool. If you do consultancy then it may be a good time to start marketing your services in the Indian subcontinent.
I would be a paid subscriber if Taco and Hemos weren't such cunts
So how about tamper evident, like food packaging?
You know, when you log in as root, you should hear the pop. If you don't, it means someone else has already r00t3d J00r 80X.
Where do I download clues?
Here.
Intelligent Life on Earth
This is despite two large contests.
That is why the us army once gave up and for some of its sites used Mac OS 9x and Webstar.
There are numerous technical reasons why no mac webservers have ever been remotely hacked and exploited.
no UNIX is as secure as Mac OS 9 and earlier according to the hundreds of exploits in Unix and the
lack of a single exploit ever discoverred in OS9 web servers.
If you want security, get rid of root, get rid of command line, get rid of single fork executables,
get rid of filename extensions, get rid of unix utility software, get rid of ANSI C library based
code and its C string buffer exploits, and save return addres HIGHER up the stack, etc etc. Basically you end up with Mac OS 7 through 9.
If security is paramount, to exclusion of all else, then Mac OS 7 through 9 cant be beat.
SecurityFocus concurs.
But most linux loving slashdot readers will never understand the TECHNICAL reasons no mac web server running Webstar and Mac OS has ever been rooted, or ignore the facts.
Ellison : we have money we need to invest in something. Hmmm... Linux is hot, lets throw some money at it in an attempt to take over the world ...
:-)
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