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CIS Releases FreeBSD Security Benchmark
JohnnyDime writes "The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released a security benchmark and auditing tool for FreeBSD versions 4.8 and later. This is a free download available from cisecurity.org. CIS is a non-profit, consensus driven organization that uses experts from the public, private, and academic sectors to develop security guidance for operating systems and applications."
Not that it needs one ;)
But more proof that BSD is not dead. It gets support from the companies that know what they're doing.
Just you wait for 5.3-RELEASE!
Sam ty sig.
The same guy keeps cutting and pasting the same message over and over. Just the number of times he's posted it is proof FreeBSD is not dead.
Linus, will you please stop posting this.
FACT: Chuckie Daemon will not die!
Hmmm...
Yahoo.com
Fark.com
Generally, clueful people.
What truly intelligent person isn't? ;->
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
hmm, oddly the HTML title and title bar both say "Benchmarks for HPUX". :)
see the link above at http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html
I use FreeBSD 5.2.1 flawlessly on my Dell Inspiron 8200. The ports systems is way cool.
If I have to use Linux then it must be Debian. Package management is the key.
FACT: his name is not Chuck, or Chuckie or anything like that. If you must give him a name, call him Beastie.
At least, I think it is a him.
If I have to use Linux I would use Mandrake better than Debian.
Package management is the key and (here is my strongest point) it has a way cooler logo !
Actually it's 4, i use FreeBSD too.
Aren't we supposed to call it our new overlord?
home
Hmm... offtopic? more like troll.. and for once a somewhat funny one ;)
> FACT: Chuckie Daemon will not die!
:
> # kill -9 `pidof chuckie`
This is ironic. pidof is linuxism. The only BSD you can kill is in your own fantasy world...
% pidof
pidof: Command not found.
%
Try
# killall -9 chuckie
No matching processes were found
#
Debian's package management is technologically superior to Mandrake's. dpkg/dselect are way more flexible and powerful. But the ports system is way better. That's why true Linux afficiandos who don't use Debian use Gentoo -- portage is based on the FreeBSD ports system. The only thing is that there isn't a simple, one-size-fits-all graphical interface to all that AFAIK.
PS -- I'm #5!
Won't work if "Chuckie" is on disk. (has the D flag in ps). If this happens, the system won't let it die until it comes out of being on disk.
this ad looks like they cribbed from Stallman
Based on ?
At least one example ?
by the way urpm has a great GUI tool too (rpmdrake).
killall doesn't work on all the BSD's. I am not positive on NetBSD, but I know that killall does not exist on OpenBSD.
I have a feeling he is referring to the "Charlie Root" that the root account uses as its full name.
Ooops, it's 3 again. I just switched to Mandrake. Couldn't take FreeBSD no more. Sorry, pals.
No one who uses Debian actually uses low-level programs like dpkg/dselect. People use much simpler and automatic apt-* . These are superior to everything else in any other distribution (that is not a clone of Debian). FreeBSD is about 20 years behind here.
Troll? WTF. I'm tired of Moderators with axes to grind.
Debian's package management IS technologically superior to Mandrakes. Period. It's more flexible and more powerful. In Mandrake there is no way to 'purge' a package -- getting rid of the original package contents and configuration files that were generated therewith and essentially making your system as though that package were never there. There is also no way to set up different dependency levels, hence the complaints about Mandrake being 'bloated' with unnecessary dependencies -- RPM doesn't provide a way to make optional dependencies. It just doesn't.
Ports/Portage is more flexible yet, as you can specify compiler flags with -DWHATEVER in Ports or with USE flags in Portage. I use this feature very frequently, for example so I can install JED without needing to install X11 first. A 'purge' feature would be nice here too, but I guess the whole premise is that you're supposed to be familiar enough with your system using Gentoo or FreeBSD that you can decide to keep or remove configs and so on anyway. That, and Gentoo has its etc-update thing, which is handy.
There. I've backed up my opinions. If you Mod me down for saying things I have objective evidence for, well, you can just lick my salty nuts.
When you have 200-500 packages installed on your system, being "familiar enough with your system" becomes a challenge to put it mildly. That's why Debian's automatic system is by far superior to the competition.
Posting anonymoustly, because it's obvious that BSD trolls with mod points aren't going to like this.
Quite all right. I run it on several machines (both desktop & server), so I more than make up for the one lost user.
ND
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