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ClosedBSD 1.0b Released
An unnamed reader submits: "Joshua Bergeron released ClosedBSD 1.0B today. ClosedBSD is a firewall which boots off of a single floppy diskette, and requires no hard drive. It is based off of the FreeBSD kernel, and uses ipfw as it's native ruleset manager. Best of all: it is freely available under the BSD License. ClosedBSD also features an advanced curses based configuration utility for designing and managing firewall rulesets: Screenshots available.
Choice is nice, but do we really need n+1 floppy-based firewalls ? It seems like another beta of $nat_fw_kit comes out every other day, often only differentiated by the user interface and nothing else. Seems to me like these guys should pool together and try to merge the best of everyone's toolset.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
DeadBSD ?
It actually sounds cool...
I've never used/heard of IPFW. How does it compare to IPTables. Do you get the same level of granularity?
> man picobsd
PICOBSD(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual PICOBSD(8)
NAME
picobsd - floppy disk based FreeBSD system
SYNOPSIS
picobsd [options] [floppy-type [site-name]]
DESCRIPTION
picobsd is a script which can be used to produce a minimal implementation
of FreeBSD (historically called PicoBSD) which typically fits on one
floppy disk, or can be downloaded as a single image file from some media
such as CDROM, flash memory, or through etherboot.
Four colour screen shots saved as JPEG. That's what GIF/PNG was made for.
The yellow and the light-grey bleed together as the night rages in. The King of the World will not sleep easy tonight.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Why, in heavens name, was this called ClosedBSD, rather than something much more clear and obvious, like, say, "tinyBSD", since it is tiny, as in like PicoBSD, rather than closed, as in ?license? :). Even "BRP" (BSD Router Project) would have been better and less confusing!
Man, do I hate these trolls. BSD has a much bigger installed base on the Desktop than all Linux distributions combined. Just take a look at http://www.apple.com And let's stop it with these stupid flames.
I'm sorry but it is months ago since I've used a floppy. And that was to test out PicoBSD. I would be much more happy to see a bootable cd-rom based thingie, which would allow me to put some bigger stuff on it, like sshd, tcpdump, trafshow, ngrep et al. Despite that it is only a firewall, I need these tools to debug stuff.
bash$
closedbsd seems to have a LOT more functionality than picobsd has. it looks to me like closedbsd is essentially picobsd combined with a suite of configuration utilities (ncurses/dialog based managers, etc) the screenshots clearly show the differences.. picobsd has no interactive-menu based utility to manage the system, which is what closedbsd seems to offer to its users (interface management, ipfw ruleset management, nat management, realtime connection information, etc)
while picobsd and closedbsd are certainly comparable as far as the style of the distribution. closedbsd looks to bring it more to the end user as far as simplicity and the interface goes.
So your one of those self-righteous losers who take slashdot seriously. If I see you walking down the street, I'm gonna kick your ass! Until that fateful day, you might want to consider that slashdot is a fucking joke, just like most of these posts.
Recently, Slashdot [goatse.cx] confirmed that WindRiver bucked FreeBSD out on its ass for a carton of Winstons and a case of Moosehead. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like an old copy of redhat 7.2.
What makes you say something like that? I myself am new to the OS, so maybe it is just me...but I am noticing a lot of people switching the the BSDs from linux (as I did.)
R u m or f? A/S/L?
So your one of those self-righteous losers who are unable (too stupid) to handle *BSD? hah. and therefore you just keep posting crap about *BSD, and wasting your time? perhaps you should f*uck your inflateable girlfriend/boyfriend the next time you plan to post trollish trash!
... that's typical!
*BSDs are great os, and if you don't like it, skip it! Funny anyway that you're hiding behind an AC
- I'm dead serious, so don't mod this funny!
Life sucks.
What about both?
A CDROM for the big stuff and a floppy for the config stuff. You can then flip the write protect tab when you get the setup the way you want.
A password could even be set on the floppy which is encrypted with the config file to keep everyone else from looking at the config file on the disk and devising breaks.
That way someone couldn't drop by to copy the disk, go home and analyze your setup and devise breaks on a private setup until it works.
I wrote that post sir, and you are wrong about me, but I am right about you, you are a self-righteous twat. You can't handle a few troll posts, you are a turd. You should broaden your horizons and post some trolls yourself, I highly recommend it.
G NOLIA i386
to wit:
magnolia# uname -a
FreeBSD magnolia.xxx.xxx.xx FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Mon Mar 4 21:47:22 EST 2002 root@magnolia.xxx.x.xx.xx:/usr/src/sys/compile/MA
I would like author to submit this project to FreeBSD, in standard FreeBSD distribution, there isn't a TUI utility to setup firwall, I would like to see it in FreeBSD system.
*BSD is so Gay.
look at ISO Linux.
Dan
And secondly, what is this disto do extra what I can't duplicate using PicoBSD? Only a front-end menu?
On their site on the contributions page this guy points to the FreeBSD project and the picoBSD project. I'm glad to see this, give credit where credit is deserved. Nice work on his part, and send some of the money back to the FreeBSD guys so they can keep up the great work they're doing. Props guys...
ahh, the egg in the basket..
from an interview he did with hemos (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/14552 10)
"I must say that I am not a fan of these floppy-based routers. Essentially, you are taking one of the most unreliable pieces of storage known to man, and trying to build security infrastructure on it. That's madness. Just buy a small disk. Perhaps somethings based on a CD plus some other (non-floppy) persistant storage might be sane. But please. Not floppies. Are you mad?
it has merit.
Don't feed the trolls. Please.
I am all for it!
Here's the link. Looks fairly interesting for comparison to ClosedBSD1.0 I imagine that ClosedBSD1.0 is going to have nicer "interface" as it is specialized. For those of you who are antsy about floppies, you might have to pay for that predilection in more config time.
http://bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html
hey Tatum you really play some wholesome piano.. howz about some trolling music for the People :O)
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