http://www.osnews.com/story/16231/OpenBSD_Turns_Eleven Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:06:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?173070 http://osnews.com/thread?173070 And here's to many more. This is one O.S. which is definitely worth its weight in gold. Keep up the good work gents! Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (1c3d0g) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173086 http://osnews.com/thread?173086 Yeah this is one great system, should really make a donation to them. I wish they'd get more contributions and donations so that they could happily develop full-time without any public requests for funding or donations like they had to before from lack of monies from people. I personally would not install any new release of Open without buying the CD set. This is one OS that I don't like to do the free netinstall because of the intensity of their labour work, so I am firmly commited to buying every release I install. I just wish more Linux releases would have stuff disabled by default as well for security so that people enable what they need to use so that stuff is not left open if it's not of immediate use if it's not applicable to the system it's being installed on. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lengsel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173087 http://osnews.com/thread?173087 So, it's like 11 years and a day since the NetBSD guys booted Theo TheRatt from their project.

NetBSD fans everywhere rejoice! Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dhardison) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173089 http://osnews.com/thread?173089 I start to apreciate the BSD family and i must say that openbsd are the best of all major 3.All the system are well design and minimalist, and the essencial deamons included in base system (sendmail, popa3d, spamd, apache, named, systrace, cvs, carp...).

So many thanks to all people who make this possible.

Sure, I will contribute to project for the 1st time! Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csousa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173100 http://osnews.com/thread?173100 While there's no doubt that OBSD is more secure than linux, I think it's fair to say that the number of linux systems that enable all sorts of crap by default is in the minority. I certainly don't have that issue with slack, arch, or debian, and at least slack and debian comprise a large portion of the linux market IME. Arch may not have a huge install base, but it kicks mega-ass (shameless plug!). Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zombie process) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173148 http://osnews.com/thread?173148 Even though Theo can be a little harsh at times I have to give the man credit as well as the rest of the OpenBSD developers. Making OpenBSD as secure as it is wouldn't have been possible without sticking to their goals. I'm going to pre-order my 4.0 cd soon. I have a box at home thats just begging to get openbsd put on it and used as a home server. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173153 http://osnews.com/thread?173153 What I am talking about for disabling stuff in Linux is like disabling filesharing, disabling wifi, disabling mutlisystem access, this kind of stuff, maybe even being so strict as to disable some of the net daemons but I am not talking just straight ethernet access here. So that way if I install it on a laptop leave the wifi off in case I only work with local files then disable outside access for safety stuff, or if it's installed on 1 computer that's plugged straight into the net that other computers don't need to access then leave all the network access and filesharing disabled because if there's only 1 system for the immediate area, no need for network access.

This way if a person goes in and enables any of these functions then they must have explicit reason to do so for them to feel a need to figure out how to enable it the first place. So I'm just saying I wish Linux releases would do like OpenBSD and lock a number of things down by default and leave it to people to enable what they need that's blocking access to what they need to do. Why build a door on the side of the house just because you can, even though it only leads to under a staircase, but rather let them modify the house to need outside access, thus justifying the need to put in a doorway where they had no reason for it before. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lengsel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173169 http://osnews.com/thread?173169 I haven't used OpenBSD heavily, but I still liked it much. I wish it successes in many many places where it'd fit in. Happy birthday! Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (t3RRa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173176 http://osnews.com/thread?173176 I can only imagine you're addressing distros like fedora/red hat, ubuntu, and SuSE. Most distros will detect your hardware, but I can't think of many that will automatically enable all of the services you're describing other than the "kitchen sink" variety. FWIW, I agree that installing and enabling services by default is a bad idea from a security standpoint, but sometimes needed from a comfort level one. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zombie process) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173179 http://osnews.com/thread?173179 OpenBSD is much more that disable daemons...is audit all the base system and replace with secure code... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csousa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?173266 http://osnews.com/thread?173266 ..happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear OpenBSD
you're better than Gentoo.

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