The Allure and Curse of Complexity

The Allure and Curse of Complexity
Jason Miller, 2004-07-01

The curse of complexity is the bane of every security administrator, so UNIX users take your pick: would you like BSD or Linux?

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Dont forget about Macs!! 2004-07-02
Anonymous (2 replies)

Dont forget about Macs!!...right 2004-07-05
bassdemon

Dont forget about Macs!! 2004-07-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Dont forget about Macs!! 2004-07-06
Anonymous

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-02
Anonymous

Lynx, give me a break. 2004-07-02
Anonymous (2 replies)

Lynx, give me a break. 2004-07-03
Anonymous

Lynx, give me a break. 2004-07-03
COMprehensive

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-03
Scott Gever (1 replies)

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-07
Anonymous

> I don't think you've acclimated to Mac OS X being a BSD Unix system and it being the most widely shipped *nix in the world.

Well, apple reckon they've shipped about 10 million OS-X (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jan/06macosx.html ), and the linux counter thing estimates about 18million linux users in the world ( http://counter.li.org/ ).

I guess you're probably right that it's the 'most shipped *nix', but that doesn't make it the most popular...

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As I see it... 2004-07-03
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The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-04
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Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com> (1 replies)

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-09
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Depends on the application 2004-07-08
BSDbiggot

We don't need a complex world 2004-07-12
Anonymous

Everything is complex anyway 2004-07-12
Neeme Reinmets

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 2004-07-13
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