openBSD

[WaWAR_FA]

anybody know anything about openBSD?

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by WaWAR_BOB:
anybody know anything about openBSD?

It's a BSD fork with emphasis on security.

Their philosophy is to ship a distribution with services turned off.  If you need a service you need turn it on and configure it, which means you need to find out about the service first.

It's a good idea.

OpenSSH and OpenSSL are parts of the OpenBSD project, although they are not just for OpenBSD.

A sysadmin here likes it and uses it for his department firewall.

[Pantso]

If you come over to promote-opensource.org you can ask one of our members (Glanz) who's a BSD veteran. OpenBSD is a BITCH to install and you have to have a LOT of experience with the BSDs before even attempting to set it up. That aside, Theo de Raadt, the founder of OpenBSD is perhaps one of the few true geniuses around. He managed to make OpenBSD the safest and most secure OS around. OpenBSD implements cryptography features that are nowhere else to be found and his OS has only had 1 remote hole in 7 whole years. To give you a small comparison, FreeBSD is like Windoze to install when compared to OpenBSD. You have to know exactly what you're doing with the latter, otherwise you'll end up with a totally or semi-unusable system    

[ August 17, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]