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Message-ID: <3FB32A47.6090604@abox.co.il>
From: netcat at abox.co.il (netcat)
Subject: Re: Funny article

dphull@...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.
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>Certainly a vulnerability in Apache should not be a strike against Linux, 
>should it?
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>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?
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>--
>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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