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Custom OpenBSD 3.0 with IPFilter From Darren Reed
rjk191 writes: "Darren Reed, the author of IPFilter, has created his own release of OpenBSD which puts IPFilter back in. IPFilter was removed from OpenBSD 3.0 by the OpenBSD team due to license issues. See his newsgroup posting that announces it here." Here's the whole thread for some more information.
OpenBSD's main tenet is that security is the most important part of the distribution. This rogue distribution is using OpenBSD's name (is this allowed? Anyone?); is it still following OpenBSD's strictures regarding security, such as a full source audit before release?
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
It is ironic, yet just desserts, that Theo is now losing control of the OpenBSD project, to a man with whom he has had many personal spats in the past. Those of you who don't remember the history of the OpenBSD project will note that Theo did the exact same thing to put NetBSD out of business in the mid-90s. Although Darren has some big shoes to fill with regard to OpenBSD's rigorous auditing and feature assimilation, he has shown himself to be an excellent coder and project manager in the ipf project and in other open source efforts, so I have few doubts about his ability to pull it off. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the Homer/Grimes rivalry on that one Simpsons episode - one of the guys always loses in a big way, and in this case it was Theo.
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One important thing to note (and left out of this announcement) is that Darren will be including bootable ISOs with his releases. This is a great move, as I've always run into trouble with the hacked together OpenBSD unofficial ISOs. I'm also not too keen on using a 6-month-old firewall with who knows how many fixes needed in the future, and am glad IPF is back in the game with a OpenBSD-alike release that I can grab and run with. Good job to everyone involved!
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Check your dates. CmdrTaco says he fell in love with Hemos on May 21, 1997, yet he says he divorced him on November 5, 1996...
Perhaps I'm missing something as I've only had the chance to momentarilly skim this. If so, ignore this.
No matter what, this appears to be a well thought out and brilliant first post. Congratulations!
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The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shround over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
Just remember that this is only made possible with the BSD license.
Remember, Theo said that it was fine by him to use OpenBSD for whatever reason you want.
Had the OpenBSD kernel been GPL'ed, Darren would have had to make ipfilter work in OpenBSD userland.
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