[rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Sep 23 23:54:17 CDT 2001


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:38:52PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On September 23, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > What really sucks most about IRIX is their desk-top personal-OS mindset
> > and their total disregard for security.
> 
>   Well I don't run their mindset in on my network...I run the
> software.  Security problems I can fix (and so can you, and any other
> sysadmin that's worth a damn).

Some of us find it to be an attractive property of an OS not to need to be
a security admin worth a damn to be able to trust it.

But then, those of us who feel that way run OpenBSD or Bastille linux on
externally exposed machines, and save the SGIs for our desktops or CPU
crunching.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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