@stefano I don't doubt the #efficiency and #quality of #FreeBSD nor the #security of #OpenBSD.

• There's a reason most #Webhosters use FreeBSD and why a lot of #Mailservers run either FreeBSD or OpenBSD.

@aki #LDAP is definitely the point.

• #SelfHosting of #Mailservers make at least nominally sense.

• Caving in to the sharade of #SSL commercialization is quite much for me as @cacert assurer.

@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

• Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

• Which is sad because #competition breeds #innovation and a lot of stuff like #Zones in Solaris really were at their time really forcing #KVM, #bhyve and #BSDjails to up their game for good.

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

• Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939

@topher #Antivirus is for the most part #Scareware aimed at scamming #TechIlliterates which at best only works against kniwn threats and at worst is literal #Malware in and of itself selling user data to bad actors.

• There are commercial AV options for major distros, like #ESET offers for all 3 big Desktop ones: @RedHat, #SUSE & #UbuntuLTS...

As for the rest one can just scan #Fileservers regularly and do so on #Mailservers, but existing tools to enforce quick and early updates on those distros already do most of the heavy lifting re: #ITsec...

#JustSayling

@Szwendacz I think #Antivirus and #Malware protection should be the sole responsibility of the #maintainer of said #OS / #Distro!

And I'd happily pay for #support and have that in writing for more than just #compliance reasons...

That being said #Linux already dominates (#Android is just a #toybox + #musl / #Linux distro and for the vast majority of people - espechally in the global south, it is their #Desktop!) and it "solved" the malware problem just by taking away 'the means to fuck up a system' from #TechIlliterate #users - as any reasonable #sysadmin should do anyway...

• Something that may not work at all on #macOS and espechally on #Windows due to it not having permission managment and actual security in it's design!

So yeah, 3rd party #AV may seem like #Scareware on #Linux (and #Mailservers should at least #ClamAV their inboxes) but on Windows they are absolutely pointless given than those are #BinaryBlob - #Kernelhacks (none of them got Sourcecode access for Windows!) that actually lessen #security of the System!

• I don't trust #Microsoft and thus I don't use Windows - period!

@Annalee

Exactly!
Because whilst #OpenBSD is propably the safest Operating System that one can hook up to the Internet out-of-the-box, noone's gonna yeet all their #Linux boxes out and force themselves to migrate everything to it.

Just because I know people who earned their living doing #Mailservers on #OpenBSD doesn't mean it's something I'd recommend to anyone even if on paper that's the "most secure option"...