The hardest firewall ever made. Period.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:15 pm

Err, i ment i know some distro's are fucked out of there mind once installed, as in they need a ton of work to get them secure or at times working properly.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:17 pm

mandrake's one of the easiest

"a ton of work to get them secure"?? i'm not even going to respond to that.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:20 pm

we'll that is a statement on persional Experance.

i watched a teacher break into Mandrake, then try the same thing with suse.. and yea.. it was nuts how fast he got into mandrake. ( both Fresh installs btw )

Now stop de-railing the topic Juggs

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:24 pm

Underpants? wrote:OpenBSD is known for its rock-solid security whereas linux runs neck and neck with MS for the most exploits in a single distro.

Stop spouting FUD. Ever tried Debian stable?

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:47 pm

^misantropia^ wrote:
Underpants? wrote:OpenBSD is known for its rock-solid security whereas linux runs neck and neck with MS for the most exploits in a single distro.
Stop spouting FUD. Ever tried Debian stable?

Linux does have a fair amount of vulnerabilities which are regularly discovered. Securing a *nix machine is just as much of a time consuming process as securing an MS machine and updating is just as critical.

Edit: Granted there are a few really stable distros (like the one you linked to) which are pretty damned secure out of the box.

Post by **Underpants?** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:02 am

^misantropia^ wrote:
Underpants? wrote:OpenBSD is known for its rock-solid security whereas linux runs neck and neck with MS for the most exploits in a single distro.
Stop spouting FUD. Ever tried Debian stable?

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/ser ... 931,00.htm
I don't (always

) spout FUD, you fucking round-eye.
Below are a couple of links for yer reading pleasure, all found on stable builds. Not all are debian specific, not all are recent but the point is, there's been zero vulnerabillities found in out of the box openbsd builds over the past 8 (did I say 3?) years.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/develo ... 183,00.htm
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security ... 00037.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JSHA-5CSMGM
http://neworder.box.sk/explread.php?newsid=13116