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@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...

-> infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825

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...

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...

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Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...
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@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.

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...

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@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!
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@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"...

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@Annalee OR you could just choose a #ManagedHosting provider where someone is being paid for keeping stuff updated and secure.

Just like with #Mailservers, #Wordpress or whatever application one wants hosted.

It's not as if #SelfHosting is without alternative and choosing a #FLOSS solution that multiple providers offer as #managed / #SaaS offering is my go-to recommendation espechally for SMEs and Users that can't afford personnel hours needed to properly #SelfHost!