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Absolute OpenBSD

Posted by michael on from the absolute-security dept.

porkrind writes "No Starch Press has announced its latest BSD title, Absolute OpenBSD, by Michael Lucas, scheduled to be in stores in July, 2003. Lucas is known as a FreeBSD contributor and the author of Absolute BSD. You can read all about it and pre-order now direct from No Starch Press or at Amazon."

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  1. Re:Absolute OpenBSD = Absolute Trash tsarkon repor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    - no smp

    Not everyone needs SMP. Most people, including you, that always bitch about SMP probably don't need it in the first place. SMP brings security issues. For a project like OpenBSD, they are not going to just jump into something like this.

    - no unique features

    Won't even bother with this. You must have been living under a rock for a last year or two.

    - idiot leader, Theo de Raadt, with a history of talking but not doing.

    Complete opposite. Look on the mailing lists if you want to see people talking without action.

    - idiot leader who makes fun of the people he takes money from then contacts the ACLU when the bitch slap him

    Incorrect, missing details. Taken out of context.

    - poor rehack of stolen FreeBSD and NetBSD ideas.

    Stolen code? From a BSD licensed system? OpenBSD is probably the only OS that cares about licesensing. They audit licenses as well as code.

    - only worthwhile part of project is OpenSSH

    Seperate project. And a good one at that.

    - barely any significant features, they "audit" code for security

    Again, get out from under your rock. If only everyone audited code.

    - bad drivers

    Bad hardware. Upgrade those Realtek nics buddy.

    - bad performance

    Prove it.

    - bad scheduler, no SMP, bad at handling massive amounts of interrupts generated by high load networking

    You have already bitched about SMP, see first comment. OpenBSD has proven to handle some pretty decent loads. If you knew what you were talking about, you would have already seen the benchmarks floating around.

    - primitive everything

    Eh?

    - NetBSD, what this was forked (stolen) from is superior in terms of portability and SMP support, as well as having ports that work.

    Get over SMP. *YOU* DON'T NEED IT. The ports work fine.

    - FreeBSD, the god of all free operating systems, is clearly superior in EVERY department. Those using OpenBSD are smelly zealots with cheesy old hardware, no life and no desire to do anything correctly.

    Shame you don't have a need for UNIX. An MP3 Samba server in your parents basement doesn't count.

    OpenBSD are doing things correctly. But of course like I've said twice before, you have no clue what they have done recently.

    If FreeBSD was "superior in EVERY department" then there wouldn't be a need for NetBSD, OpenBSD, or even Linux. Would there? Every project is doing something a little different and that is a good thing.

    You have no say.