As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page, a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue. This means that OpenBSD now has two remote exploits in 10 years, as already reflected on the OpenBSD Homepage. Theo advises to to update the system (or to block IPv6 using PF as a workaround).
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Feeding a troll is something stupid, but I cannot resist - real freedom is something other than RMS GPL dictatorship. Most Linux zealots will never understand this, because real freedom needs courage. And guess what? Real freedom is based on respect and common sense too. They're "whining" about this lack of respect. But apart from that most *BSD guys just code and tell people one or two times in the year about their "problems". Linux guys are whining every hour, every single day in year. Linux users are at "war" against Windows and other Linux distros. "Hating" Windows is the common denominator in Linux communities, without it you would have the essence of it - able people who build Linux instead of spreading hype and FUD altogether.
... and thanks for all the fish.
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RE[2]: Now... this is serious!
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Microsoft doesn't have a hate relationship with the BSDs like they do with linux. The problem is linux users are always touting how wonderful linux is and sooooo much better than Windows.
You make it sound like one has to do with the other; it doesn't.
The reason why Microsoft like BSD and not Linux is that they can (and already have) taken code from BSD and incorporate it in Windows without releasing the source code, but they can't do it with Linux. Also, BSD just isn't as big a threat as Linux at the moment.
And sure, a lot of Linux people hate Microsoft and Windows but given that this is based on a lot of people's experience of Windows as a buggy, crappy product, and of Microsoft as a predatory, dishonest organisation, that attitude need not be, and indeed, isn't limited to Linux users but also extends to BSD users, BeOS/Haiku users, OS/2 users...
Equally, there are Linux people who do not like slagging off MS or Win.
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The reason why Microsoft like BSD and not Linux is that they can (and already have) taken code from BSD and incorporate it in Windows without releasing the source code, but they can't do it with Linux. Also, BSD just isn't as big a threat as Linux at the moment.
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I would reverse the priorities of those two factors.
I think it has everything to do with the level of threat.
I don't see code swiping as being all that major a factor.
Differences in internals limit the value of literal copying of code even between Posix compatible OSes. (Which is why I'm not too overly concerned about Sun's choice of licenses for Solaris.)
Linux and Windows are far more distant from each other.
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I don't think you will ever see something like that. Microsoft doesn't have a hate relationship with the BSDs like they do with linux. The problem is linux users are always touting how wonderful linux is and sooooo much better than Windows. You don't see BSD people doing that and they are a lot more tolerable of Microsoft than linux users are. Additionally Microsoft has used BSD code in the past, not sure if they still do or not.