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on from the crushing-them-beneath-your-heel dept.
A reader writes:"There's a story on ZDNet that describes how Theo de Raadt & co. are hoping to eliminate buffer-overrun exploits for good. On closer inspection, it's a scheme to stop a buffer-overrun leading to executable code. It doesn't stop the buffer-overrun itself."
I really appreciate the effort going into OpenBSD making it more secure and robust, but I hope the option of keeping it a simple BSD without the innovative security features, remains. Part of the reason Ive used BSD in the past is its simplicity and predictability across the versions. OpenBSD, opposed to NetBSD and FreeBSD is the 'simplest' BSD outside of the seccurity changes and I hope users have the option of not using the page protection, encrypted ram and filesystems, chrooted services and other stuff.
Would also be nice to have the drivers of FreeBSD ported to OpenBSD. I had to choose Linux to be able to use my Olicom 3140 tokenring card.
Rants aside, thanks to Theo and the team, for giving us an OS we can be confident, is really secure with no compromises.
-- "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
-Nim Chimpsky
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I really appreciate the effort going into OpenBSD making it more secure and robust, but I hope the option of keeping it a simple BSD without the innovative security features, remains. Part of the reason Ive used BSD in the past is its simplicity and predictability across the versions. OpenBSD, opposed to NetBSD and FreeBSD is the 'simplest' BSD outside of the seccurity changes and I hope users have the option of not using the page protection, encrypted ram and filesystems, chrooted services and other stuff.
Would also be nice to have the drivers of FreeBSD ported to OpenBSD. I had to choose Linux to be able to use my Olicom 3140 tokenring card.
Rants aside, thanks to Theo and the team, for giving us an OS we can be confident, is really secure with no compromises.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky