Re:Wave of the future
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mattyrobinson69
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windows does have SMP support, but you have to pay through the nose for it. i think its either a server license or an smp server license, im too lazy to google for it
Too little, too late.
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Anonymous Coward
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OpenBSD has dragged its feet far too long in adding SMP support, that I'm afraid it's fallen off the radar screens of far too many would-be users, who now know that they can make a Linux or FreeBSD machine just as secure, plus get a lot better performance and be much closer to "mainstream". OpenBSD once had its famous claim to "no remote exploits since blah blah blah" but even that doesn't bear the weight it once did in the past. IMHO, a few years ago OpenBSD had its 15 minutes of fame, and now has fallen into irrelevance. Had SMP support been implemented parallel to the same time or shortly after FreeBSD was ironing out the kinks, OpenBSD would not have lost so much popularity-momentum. I ran it as my company's Internet firewall & server platforms until the uniprocessor boxes couldn't keep up anymore and since my replacement hardware was dual cpu, I just made the switch to Linux instead since the new hardware was much better supported, and have had _ZERO_ security problem with Linux on these boxes since then, just by keeping them configured and updated properly. OpenBSD has no security edge or capabilities over Linux nowadays. It's only just a quaint little academic curiosity anymore.
Ok, we're not talking rocket science here. Basically what OpenBSD did today is add electronic fuel injection to their "secure" car. They still don't have an anti-lock brake system and are still using a straight pan-head but they do have the best damn seat belts and air bags in the business. Too bad their utter lack of attention to common performance enhancment technologies means you'll never go fast enough to NEED those super duper safety features.
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windows does have SMP support, but you have to pay through the nose for it. i think its either a server license or an smp server license, im too lazy to google for it
OpenBSD has dragged its feet far too long in adding SMP support, that I'm afraid it's fallen off the radar screens of far too many would-be users, who now know that they can make a Linux or FreeBSD machine just as secure, plus get a lot better performance and be much closer to "mainstream". OpenBSD once had its famous claim to "no remote exploits since blah blah blah" but even that doesn't bear the weight it once did in the past. IMHO, a few years ago OpenBSD had its 15 minutes of fame, and now has fallen into irrelevance. Had SMP support been implemented parallel to the same time or shortly after FreeBSD was ironing out the kinks, OpenBSD would not have lost so much popularity-momentum. I ran it as my company's Internet firewall & server platforms until the uniprocessor boxes couldn't keep up anymore and since my replacement hardware was dual cpu, I just made the switch to Linux instead since the new hardware was much better supported, and have had _ZERO_ security problem with Linux on these boxes since then, just by keeping them configured and updated properly. OpenBSD has no security edge or capabilities over Linux nowadays. It's only just a quaint little academic curiosity anymore.
Ok, we're not talking rocket science here. Basically what OpenBSD did today is add electronic fuel injection to their "secure" car. They still don't have an anti-lock brake system and are still using a straight pan-head but they do have the best damn seat belts and air bags in the business. Too bad their utter lack of attention to common performance enhancment technologies means you'll never go fast enough to NEED those super duper safety features.