[LUNI] Firewall question

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:01:36PM -0600, Steve Pribyl wrote:
> > Why did you choose BSD over Linux?
> It is not Linux,  why make things easy.

See, my take on it is the exact opposite.  I've always figured I'm less
likely to screw something up (or overlook a vital update, whatever) if
I'm not using a "foreign" system on the firewall.  If I were a bigger
operation, or being paid for the work, then the potential advantages in
having different systems, hence hopefully different bugs, would have to
be considered.

> Again, NetBSD has an excellent security reputation.  This distro is built
> around networking.

Is it?  The name does kind of suggest it, but my admittedly vague
impression was that "that other" BSD was more interested in being as
portable (and widely ported) as possible.

-- 
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security.
It's that they are never desirable.  -- Whitfield Diffie