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Battle of the Secure Distros
CrazyEd writes "LinuxSecurity is reporting that EnGarde Secure Linux has received the Network Computing Editor's Choice award to win the battle of the Secure Linux distributions. Well deserved, me thinks." Update: 06/10 15:16 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out that Linuxlookup.com
reviewed this distro last week, awarding it a perfect score.
I'm switching to freebsd, NOW!
Or maybe we can get her to switch to linux and where a black leotard penguin suit? =)
How will they stack up against OpenBSD? It will be a few years before we can really make a judgement on the matter. The Linux distros are still kind of young.
Secure your anus! Jon's is insecure. He runs Redhat Linux on it.
I personally am addicted to the bit of software heroin that is apt-get.
:)
I'm incredibly happy to see the work that 's been done on this linux distro. The improvements to DACLs are much needed, and making the stack non-executable is a good move (tho' been done on Solaris for a good long while now). But I'm afraid that there's no way I could possibly ever use this distro unless it gets apt-get.
apt-get has to be _the_ killer app for unix... just like graphedit was the killer app for Windows. (What do you mean you've never heard of graphedit ?!?! Plays _all_ media. MP3, Divx, OpenDivX, Windows Media.. the Lot.)
apt-get is the reason I ditched redhat/suse/mandrake etc. apt-get is the reason I finally got rid of the last few copies of windows. I've never been an open source zealot. I've always figured that a mixture of Linux and Windows was a good thing, but one day I realised..
1. Windows is written by a bunch of criminals.. No arguments, it's been proven in a court of law. They are a bunch of criminals who acted illegaly, and I can't be touched for liebel, because it's true.
2. Windows is so poorly written that they can't work out where the operating system stops, and where the program which connects using the TCP to port 80 begins. That's got to be some mighty bad coding there. I'm no great programmer, but I tend to put at least enough comments in my code so that I can tell what different parts do.
3. Windows is so poorly written that if they released the sourcecode, it'd kill people. They told us this, under oath, sworn on the bible in front of God, in a court of law.
4. Windows can't manage an uptime of more than a few days, as it requires rebooting every time a security fix is installed, and security fixes are every couple of days.
5. Everyone I know says they only keep it around for playing games, and then bitch continuously when their games keep crashing.
6. They're not paying me for fixing all their broken code... In fact, they won't even let me do it for them free of charge. Worse still, they want me to pay them for the privellege of making my computer insecure for me, and bombarding me with MSN garbage.
7. I don't have enough time to keep that many windows boxes up and running unless someone's paying me for it. My home machines need to be more reliable than that.
So.. one day, at my DOS prompt, I typed
"tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2"
and it didn't work...so then I tried..
"apt-get isntall tar bzip2" and that didn't work either... and that was the straw that broke the camels back.
Microsoft finally ditched here.
I now have 11 machines, and not one of them runs Windows any longer, which is kind of ironic as I have 3 boxed copies of Office2000 Professional, and 3 copies of Windows2000 Professional still in the shrinkwrap. (Don't worry, someone else paid for them). I understand that in the UK, they've decided that the M$ EULA isn't worth the paper it's printed on, and I'm legally allowed to sell these
It's not the price that got me (tho I could have bought a car for the cost of those 3 copies of Office), and it's not the continuous upgrade cycle that got me, and it's not even the spyware features of XP which got me to change, (XP was never allowed through the door here. Never even tried to install it. Simply not interested. Seen other people reinstall it 3 times in 2 weeks.. kind of put me off. I like my computers to be useable).
Nope.. the thing that caused me to ditch the last windows box here was apt-get.
Ergo... apt-get is _the_ killer app.
If they'd just start using apt-get for managing their distro, we'd be in business. Until then, I'm sticking with Debian.
Because it's dying. Just like every other *BSD.
So there.
OpenBSD 3.1!!! =))
Sorry, could not resist...
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
I could understand Offtopic. How the parent is a troll is beyond me. It's bloody informative. I wonder if the moderator even read past the first sentence.