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A Roundtable On BSD, Security, And Quality
mccormi writes: "Dr. Dobb's Journal is covering a roundtable with four key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000. The participants emphasized that reliability and security are achieved through simplicity. Other topics included the evolving distinction between Linux and BSD, why they don't use std::string, and why no one to likes IKE."
Theo: "The direction I'm going is to have a facility for installing large numbers of machines easily. Right now you have to do attended installs. It would be nice to have a config file, TFTP or NFS mounts, preload a bunch of defaults, and splat out 30 installs at once. Most of the major OSes have this in some form or other. RedHat Linux KickStart is more complicated than it need be."
Amen! This would be a very very nice feature!
I use mostly RedHat and Solaris at work. We use Jumpstart for automating Solaris installs and configuration and kickstart for RedHat installs.
Yes, it takes an effort to secure a Solaris or RedHat box, but if you script it and prepare an unattended install method then it doesn't matter to you whether to install 20, 30 or 200 boxes at once. This is the reason why we use RedHat instead of Debian (Debian installation is waay too interactive..)
If OpenBSD will have this feature, good for them.
As others have said, GPLing BSD code is mostly ok (modulo the old advertising clause). But it's mostly a moot point since "Linux stole the BSD TCP stack" is just a piece of fiction that has managed to survive all these years. The only BSD networking is actually the BSD PPP compression, the rest is a grounds-up reimplementation (for better or for worse).