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OpenBSD 3.0 Release, Interview with Theo
mvw writes: "Here is an interview with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt. Interesting is his comment on Soft Updates and the comparison to the rivaling Journaling file systems technology. Further he links to a very interesting paper by some Soft Updates researchers." And although OpenBSD 3.0 has an "official" release date of December 1 for whatever reason, it seems to be available by FTP or CD already. Lots of changes since 2.9.
Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have lpd running on a firewall?
TUX2 Phase Tree: Better than Soft Updates
As Levar Burton says in Reading Rainbow, "but don't take my word for it."
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"The donations have seriously slumped in the last year, but that is probably just due to industry tightening of the belts." says De Raadt. /. was the comment along the lines "Linux only has SMP because they don't know what SMP really means". That may be so, but OBSD is one of the few *nix like products I'm aware of that still doesn't have SMP. And there's a lot of software that will show a big performance boost on SMP these days.
Based on what evidence? Many other OS and software projects are getting serious funding. Perhaps it's something to do with the reponses that the core development team post on the mailing lists? If you've seen some of the bile that gets spewed up over journalling, boot loaders, and anyone who dare make a security question, you'll probably understand that a lot of folks get alienated against the project.
When you see stuff like "journalling is for linux weenies" (all fs problems are solved by soft updates - oh yeah? what did you do before you had 'em ?), referring to the user base as "whiners", and comments such as "we don't care if you use OBSD", from the core developers themselves it makes you wonder why there's even an advocacy mailing list.
My personal favorite from the last de Raadt interview posted on
One final caveat, the security of the product is great, providing you want Apache the way Theo gives it to you, and you don't intend installing any ports....
You wanna know how I got a linux box into my aunt and uncle's home and lord forbid this christmas my mom's home?
One word Smoothwall. I tried Single Network Firewall by Mandrake but did not have time to get it to like the NICs I had in there.
If they had a Nice pretty 20-30 meg *BSD firewall distro or a 100-200 meg *BSD firewall/print server/webproxy/IDS server I will install it on my own network along with at least two relatives.
P.S. My Aunt and uncle have had a linux firewall box with a switch on top for 3 years and neither one of them knows dick about computers. The damn thing just works and if it doesn't (its a headless system) they power cycle the bitch and it does. Pretty Webadmin interface makes the whole thing slick and useable, and useability is what at least part of *BSD should be looking at if they want penetration. If not they can circle jerk the whole damn sysadmin community forever but because they do not have the backing of the some big iron company they will forever be regulated to a niche comnunity. No flames meant by any of this, I'm just trying to point out that the Linux community has grown by leaps and bounds since the inception of projects the likes of mandrake, gnome/KDE, and others. I think its time that *BSD learns from its upstart cousin and build something that has the potential for mass appeal.
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