[geeks] are *BSD (and Linux) people "unhelpful"?

[Amy]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Amy wrote:
>
> > irix over solaris? wow. talk about your insecure recommendatons ;)
>
> IRIX (for values of 6.5 and later) can be hammered into being quite
> secure, provided that you turn off the metric buttload of crap that's
> auto-installed and set to run.  It's just that...well, fixsolaris.txt is,
> what, about 50k?  fixirix.txt would be about 120k. :)

bill said something the other day that applies well. you cant make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear. sometimes it's cheaper to buy a new pig.

--a