On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:28:05 PST, Daniel Sichel <daniels@Ponderosatel.com> said: > I usually don't take sides in religious wars, but as an observation, at > my last job I put up a Linux based DNS and mail server unfirewalled. > Within 3 days, it was streaming porn for some guy in Brazil. I replaced > it with an Open BSD server, which I created with almost no knowledge of > Bind, qmail or Open BSD, and it is still up today, three years later, > unmolested. So, there is something to be said for secure OSes. Is it secure, or is it lack of market share? The people who are hacking into a box to set up a streaming porn server want the biggest bang for their buck. All you've proven was that 3 days after you set up the Linux box, some scanner with a working Linux payload poked you, and that so far you haven't been visited by somebody who had an OpenBSD version of an exploit. And let's face it, if there's a vulnerability in BIND or Apache or something like that, you're a hell of a lot better off getting a Linux exploit if all you're looking for is raw numbers of sites. There aren't enough OpenBSD sites to make much of an incremental difference.
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