Re: [Security] Re: Windows: insecure by design?

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From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 10:12:22 PDT

At 13:03 -0700 2003-08-26, Mike Hunter wrote:
>On Aug 26, "Steve Sizemore" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:54:11PM -0700, Mike Hunter wrote:
> > > It'd be awesome to have a non-windows OS specifically rolled
>for Berkeley.
>>
>> This is a great idea! I even have a name for it - "Berkeley Software
> > Distribution". ...
> >
>> Oh, wait, it's been done...
> > The problem is that almost no one at Berkeley even uses it.
>
>I agree freebsd is a great OS and would serve as a great windows
>replacement. The hard part is getting something that is easy for Berkeley
>end-users to install and run to do the things they want to do: Web,
>email, word processing.

   For what it's worth, there's a derivative of FreeBSD on which the
following run natively:

   - Microsoft Office
   - Microsoft Entourage, Eudora, and at least 10 other GUI mail clients,
     as well as many traditional Unix clients
   - Internet Explorer, Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird/Camino, Safari, Opera,
     iCab, and other Web browsers

and is used fairly extensively on campus right now: Mac OS X.

   As noted on one of Apple's developer-oriented Web pages at
<http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/intro.html>:

>Mac OS X is largely based on one of the most popular and stable open
>source UNIX variants: FreeBSD.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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