thanatoid wrote in
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What I can say is that that when I first tried OpenBSD and
saw their modular selection of modules at install time, I
knew that W98 should be like that. Fortunately, it CAN be.
As we can't audit and edit code (even if I had the abaility
at that level!), I can't gurantee that like OpenBSD, it's
'secure by default', but this is as close as it's possible
to get, and it's also as easy an install as I've ever seen.


Nor I with understanding it. Who cares about security. Ya gets a
firewall and ESET for 98 and you're done (this assumes you
already have a working brain).


Sometimes a machine feels safer if we know it's not got a network stack to
break at all. If I made some DVD ripping machine (I can't watch DVD's on
my underpowered systems, they are light on energy but need XviD to balance
quality with low CPU demands to show movies), I'd be happier is I knew that
no unwanted functions were lurking, slowing it down, risking general borkage.
Taking out whole unwanted chunks of OS is especially gratifying...