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Using OpenBSD to Secure Small Networks, Part 2

Posted by timothy on from the caulking-the-windows-with-plastique dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "ONLamp has another article on securing small networks, this time with the current version of OpenBSD and pf. Quite good."

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  1. Hard Times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So why now? Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    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 shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  2. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Feminine Odor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Important gossip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:OpenBSD as more then a firewall by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nobody cares about that, did you know that *BSD is dying? Maybe you could find a "dallas cowboys will win the superbowl" chat room if you want to talk about the time you stuck your dick in a vacuum cleaner...

  6. Re:Dear *BSD fanboys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT YHL HAND