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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."
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
That is nice... lets see when there is a result (have seen enough results from the people involved in Fragonfly, so that was not intended as a cynical statement, just as a huint that only what exists today can be used today)
Anyway, unlike what some people believe, this kind of competition between different BSD distributions is a good thing, it allows people to go their own way with their ideas, and after a while all BSDs get a better solution (if the idea turned out to be better that is)
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.