[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[George Adkins]

On Monday 24 June 2002 08:56 pm, you wrote:
> "Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366" wrote:
> > Absolutely.  If IRIX was as secure out of the box as OpenBSD, I would
> > have nothing but SGI stuff.
>
> I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? I've heard lots of people
> complaining about how secure various OSes (IRIX, Solaris, etc.) are 'out of
> the box'. Who cares? How long does it take to secure any modern Unix OS? 

Agreed, Who (in their right mind) puts a stock machine out on the exposed 
frontier anyway?  It would be foolish to expose a box to the world without 
first hardening (or at least securing) it.

George