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The comments seemed to lean towards the Soekris and similar GEODE products, and the VIA EPIA.

What in the world?

Apache... criticizing a bad open source license... Whaaaaaa?

For those with no idea what I'm talking about:

http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=200 40220085910
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/215242.shtml
http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility


On a different note, it's rather funny... In another few years, the OpenBSD guys will be maintaining their own forks of every open source project out there. :-)

If you still think the Apache Software Foundation's license is a truly open license, take a look at this story about Apache httpd being unable to be included in OpenBSD and think again!

Ash appears to consume large amounts of memory, and some people in BSD circles have serious objections to it.

See the discussion here (scroll down a bit into the postings). I don't have an opinion on the issue one way or another.

BSD jail system is good, but falls far behind compared to Linux nowadays.

This may be the case, but for many Linux users these security improvements are not easily available since they are not supported by the major Linux distributions.

As an example, OpenBSD supports and integrates various technologies out of the box, while similar technologies is unavailable for most Linux users. Unless you do a huge amount of work, and have the required knowledge to patch your system, of course.

It's like the old proverb "Better with one bird in the hand, than ten on the roof."

Linux = Penguin = Warm and cuddly.

Penguin = warm? I guess they're warm blooded, but when I think penguin, I think very cold. And cryptic. What the hell does "wark" mean?

OpenBSD = Blowfish

(the leash et al changes by release)
cold, wet, and deadly.

... discussion for i386 and Sparc64. Not endorsed by OpenBSD.org.

You are right, a link or two might have helped. After googling a little, I found this announcment on undeadly.org

no kidding!

Since I'm subscribed to the mailing list I've gotten to read all about it for the last couple days. Here's a link to the mailing list archive....here

A page to actually read more on this is here.

Maybe *BSD died back then... but it's most surely coming back! Just take a look at the latest NetCraft survey and you'll see that they have come back a little.

I think this article confirms it. Just check where it's posted: http://undeadly.org/, doesn't that light some lights!?

One thing that I can most definatelly note is that with the use of OpenBSD, the experience was made by far simpler, and headache free. The common belief out there is that OpenBSD is best used for security gateways, firewalls, routers and etc. Well, I personally do not believe so. The capability of this OS is only admin deep. The more you know, the more you can achieve. I have personally ran OpenBSD in large enterprise environments as web servers, file servers, database servers, and frankly, it's resource management and speed is uncomparable to most other operating systems out there, multiply that with the security standards, and you've got an amazing OS.

I feel like installing OpenBSD!

Like someone already pointed out, it's not really different than TCP MD5 Signature (unless I didn't understood what you mean).