Ways to promote FreeBSD?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri May 4 14:58:30 UTC 2012


> Not really, no. I was referring to the practice of starting a gazillion
> services by default, including dbus, avahi, ftp and http services,
> file sharing components, and all the rest of the stuff that is now
> commonly installed as part of a "Linux desktop".  SELinux is indeed
> one form of hardening, but I wasn't referring specifically to it; exactly
> the opposite, in fact.

Without running unneeded things there is no need to "harden".
In spite of FreeBSD having quite a lot of extra security features, i don't 
really use more than standard unix security and jails, it is not really 
needed.

FreeBSD do this (almost) right - default rc.conf doesn't ruch much, but 
still too much. no idea why inetd is run by default, with no services but 
anyway.


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