[cobalt-developers] OS-discussion

[Jörg Jan Münter <support@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi out there,

during the last days there was a discussion about Linux or not, BSD or 
Solaris and so on.

Sory, but i am relly tired of these discussions and i don't understand what's 
this all about. Cobalt does use Linux, and it works fine, as long as you 
don't try any extreme hacks on that machine. I maintain several RaQs, and 
they just work without any trouble. I don't want to do all those little fixes 
by hand, that's why i really like the cobalt updates, indeed i'm lazy and i 
don't have time, as i have to do many many things in support and managing 
projects for our customers. No customer pays the time i spend on system 
services or wired OS-experiments. And i don't suggest anybody to do this on 
production-systems.

Sure, other systems may be more secure, but those people who don't use for 
example external firewalls should think about their philosophy of security 
first before discussion security features of OSes. Our machines all work 
behind sophisticated firewalls and we don't grant shell access to any 
customer, so we simply don't have those security problems.

And if anybody prefers Solaris why don't you fetch free Solaris 8 from web 
and install it on a cheap Intel-platform? I don't like Solaris, i prefer AIX, 
but i don't think those discussions should be discussed here.

If someone doesn't like Cobalt with Linux, why don't you buy something else? 
If someone prefers BSD, go ahead and set up a machine with BSD, maintain your 
system by hand, go and find the latest security-updates etc. and install them 
from scratch, fix the problems between all the programs on that machine and 
so on, if you like to waste time on that.

We made the experience that these arte low-price systems that work well 
enough for standard web-services. And if you install another MTA but sendmail 
even mailing works fast and stable. Security is mainly a matter of the way 
you grant access to your machine and the way you use your system or implement 
software, not only of the OS itself.

Yours
	Jan*