Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

[Anthony Atkielski]

Martin McCann writes:

> then stop complaining to a list of 'kiddies', and use that.

MS doesn't support FreeBSD.

> If you have never encountered the term FLOSS, you are not the open
> source user you claim to be, it is a common term.

I've probably encountered it, I just didn't retain it.  The IT world is
full of acronyms.

> And what open source developer does anything but 'doing it at a loss'?.

Very few, which is one reason why open source is not a serious
competitor to proprietary software in many cases.

> Statistics will prove whatever you want it to prove, most people with
> intelligence look beyond the given conclusion, and make their own.

If you don't look at statistics to draw your conclusions, what do you
look at?

> Depends on what you want as a desktop - desktop != WIMP.

Most people want a GUI on the desktop, and UNIX isn't designed for that.
There are fundamental conflicts between the design requirements of a
desktop and those of a server.  One cannot do both well.

> Alternatively, many of the features of windows seem to match those of
> already available software.

And so on, and so on.  GUIs on the desktop predate the Mac and Windows
interfaces by many years.

> So what defines a secure system, if not the fact it is less prone
> breakens?

The NCSC criteria are a good start.  Windows NT and its successors
satisfy more of them than UNIX.

-- 
Anthony