Re: IF [Tux avatar] THEN [fanboi troll]

LOL. you dont know what you are talking about.
for your information i can say that im right now on a gentoo, my home server runs ubuntu. i also have another computer which runs CentOS 5.
freebsd userland is much easier to understand then the kerneland.

I'm a Gentoo convert (from OpenBSD actually) are you using the Hardened profile?

Anywhoo, as usual the only thing I'm impressed with here is the lack of math our mouse friend has. ;-)

no not using the hardened one, i did not find it necessary on a laptop, if it was a server i would have chosen a hardened profile.

Ah didn't see that bit. I'd also recommend the GrSecurity patches (I know that SeLinux is part and parcel of Gentoo these days but I think that in general the learning capabilities of GrSec outweigh the flexibility of SeLinux in real-world deployments). I left OpenBSD when Theo D. seemed to becoming more unhinged than usual. I haven't used FreeBSD since 1997 and while I'm sure it's a fine OS - some of the papers I've read show kernel i/o calls with impressively low latency. That said there is little reason to believe that a well-deployed Linux box is any worse off than a well-deployed FreeBSD box. Especially in such a poorly defined term like "security". Were I you, I'd just leave the mouse alone. Most of the arguments I've read from him are specious. The only impressive thing he's done is change the argument scope on you. PM me if you have questions about Linux security.