Re: FreeBSD more secure than Linux

From: Bernd Felsche (bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au)
Date: 12/18/01 

From: Bernd Felsche <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:00:53 +0800

nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:

>By comparison, Unix started as a single-user system, moved through
>the stage of being a 'workgroup' computer (i.e. collaborating and
>trusted users), and didn't even START to take security as seriously
>as MVT did until about 1990. Given another decade of development,
>it may get to where MVS/ESA took over.

Unix single-user? Ken and Dennis must still be laughing at that
comment. Which version was single-user?

I quote from "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" by D M Ritchie and K
Thompson (manuscript April 3, 1978) and published in BSTJ

"UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system
..."

The paper describes Unix up to the fourth version of the operating
system.

Ken Thompson described the workings of the kernel in his paper
submitted in December 1977.

Unix security has _long_ been taken seriously. B2-secure Unix was
available well before 1990.

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