Re: Funny article

[netcat <netcat () abox co il>]

dphull () ku edu wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, martin f krafft wrote:
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> > i guess the main argument against this joke is that an operating
> > system with 10 different web servers, 10 different mail servers, 10
> > different ftp servers, 20 different window managers, 10 different
> > browsers, 20 different mail clients, and so on, and so on, will have
> > how many more bugs than a monolithic approach with 1 web server,
> > 1 mail server, 1 ftp server, etc...
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> I don't consider the web/mail/ftp servers, windows managers, browsers, mail 
> clients etc. to be part of the operating system, per se.
>
> Certainly a vulnerability in Apache should not be a strike against Linux, 
> should it?
>
> I like how the article quoted Steve Ballmer comparing Windows 2000 Server and 
> W2K3 Server with Red Hat 6. Why doesn't Ballmer compare the state of the art 
> Windows OS' available at the time RH6 came out? Did Windows NT 4 not stack up 
> as well against RH6 as W2K/3?
>
> --
> Dave Hull
> Senior IT Analyst, Information Services
> The University of Kansas
> voice: (785) 864-0403 || fax: (785) 864-0485
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I wonder that it's not mentioned that nobody wants to apply M$ patches
as they usually break something else. The real comparson should be
between the vuln. discovery and the real fact of patching a system.
Well, you can blame the admins and not the OS but this whole comparison
is ... hmm ... strange ?

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NetCat



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