Sun Cobalt has a history of releasing packages that either don't work, or break security, or break functionality. It's a sad but true fact that's well documented in past posts to this and other Cobalt lists.
I have seen next to nothing that has not worked on a system that has not been modified. I have only had one problem ever with an update and that was OS2. It made a change to a man and I got an error from logcheck. None otherwise. I have added ipchains, logcheck, portsentry, ssh. I have not otherwise been in there modifying the system. About the only change made manually was for the parsing of files. I have basically stayed out of the conf files many people live in. So, I disagree with the packages not working and breaking other things. They do have a problem when YOU modify other things yes.
> 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. Most of us have our systems in colocation and don't have the luxury of a firewall to be behind. Please let us know a bit about your "sophisticated firewall", as I'd love to build one for our colocation customers to be able to use.
Basically he hosts plain old html pages without any extra functionality. Me too.