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OpenBSD Now Nine Years Old
NekkidBob writes "OpenBSD, my personal favorite *BSD, turns 9 years old today. And with only 1 remote hole in the default install, I'd say that is a pretty good acheivement. The first commit was at 16:36 MST on Saturday, October 14, 1995. Happy birthday OpenBSD!"
But, what good is the default install?
Drop a fresh OpenBSD installation into a hostile environment such as the internet.
Drop a fresh WindowsXP installation into the same environment.
You won't ask that question again.
Don't you want it to be doing something?
No I want it to do as little as possible. It is ready to serve when I say it is and no sooner. This lets you patch first and not everyone has the luxury of installing a box in a secure network.
It's suffered the same Apache/SSL/FTP/PHP errors as everyone else.
More or less, yes, the same problems. Thats why these services are off by default, to let you patch them first, and enable only what you need.
I know if you search cert for openbsd you get lots of hits, so there are wholes in the applications.
No one has ever suggested otherwise.
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