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ClosedBSD 1.0b Released

Posted by timothy on from the minimalism dept.

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.

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  1. Reduplication of efforts by billcopc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Reduplication of efforts by wholesomegrits · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No kidding. I feel like saying FOR FUCKS SAKE, WHY USE A FLOPPY? It's 2002, I think we can move beyond an aged, failure prone media. Read this recent slashdot discussion and why I think floppy based distros are shit. It's just a stupid idea.

      What does a new hard disk cost? Peanuts. Is reliablity something that nobody cares about? All the tired arguments "Oh, you only use the floppy at bootup" and "Don't reboot it!" are pointless. Fact is, the thing could fail, and you'd not know it. Besides, does nobody keep log files anymore? I would think that the prevailing common sense would be to keep logfiles and update software now and then.

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  2. CD-ROM based distribution by MavEtJu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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