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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. IPFW vs. IPTables by silicon_synapse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never used/heard of IPFW. How does it compare to IPTables. Do you get the same level of granularity?

  2. Re:Reduplication of efforts by saintlupus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems to me like these guys should pool together and try to merge the best of everyone's toolset.

    Probably, but then again, that could be said for any of the millions of other projects out there.

    How many editors do we really need? Window managers? Databases? Web browsers? MP3 encoders? CD players? Etc...

    The big power of using a *nix on my home machine is setting everything up _just_ like I want it, from the shell to the WM to the browser. My Linux box looks completely different from anyone else's that I know, but it works perfectly for me.

    --saint

  3. Re:Reduplication of efforts by NWT · · Score: 4, Interesting

    do we really need n+1 floppy-based firewalls ?
    Perhaps yes, perhaps not ... IMO it's better to get a 1gb harddrive to install the full freebsd distribution, not only a kernel and some stuff, because you'll have a lot more possibilities to play around with ;)
    On the other hand, they're useful, if you need a firewall/gateway solution in very short time ... for example in case of a harddrive failure, you put in the floppy, and your firewall/gw is back up and running in no time!

    Seems to me like these guys should pool together and try to merge the best of everyone's toolset.
    Nope, there i can't really agree ... it's very hard to mix different things together to get one good thing. Suppose you want to buy a new stereo, and you put together the best product from each of the big companies (f.e. the amplifier from JeVeCe, the MP3 player from sonie, the speakers from YXC)... when you put the thing together you'll experience a lot of problems due to incompabilities between the different parts. With software, it's the same, merging is tough and requires a big effort ...

    - Don't get upset, it's just _my_ opinion!

    --
    Life sucks.
  4. Why reinvent PicoBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    > 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.