thoughts on UNIX and older systems

Actually I stated the versions were Red Hat 5.1 for Linux and either 2.3 or 2.4 for OPENBSD. Personally I don't think of OpenBSD as a specific BSD-based distro, more as one of the BSDish OS's, but I guess it's true that it is a specific distro, and it's purpose is security. However, there doesn't seem to be a Linux distro concerned with security. Now that I think about it I probably am turning on the networking portition and not even thinking about, since I'm heavily networked. Plus you do have to actually give it some info before the networking will work. Still it does turn on a lot of stuff I don't care about. I like Red Hat, but really wish it wouldn't turn on anything that's installed by default, which it appears to do. There were a couple things with known vulnerabilities, and it had a lot more services it was providing that were potential openings for an attack. I don't remember the specifics, just that there was almost a page of stuff for Linux and a couple items for OPENBSD. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |