Re: BSD questions
Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk> writes:
> Personally, I would choose OpenBSD. They splintered from NetBSD a couple
> of years ago, and they have spent that time making their utilities more
> secure. I favour security over speed or size.
It also seems to be the one favoured by SNI, who post a number of
security advisories to BugTraq. Their BSD lpd advisory says:
> iv. Install a fixed version of the BSD print software. A fixed version
> of the BSD print software is availible at the following ftp site:
>
> ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/patches/lpd.tar.gz
>
> This package fixes numerous other problems present in the BSD
> printing suite, including numerous buffer overflows present in both
> the client programs and the server. This package has been
> provided by OpenBSD.
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