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OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up
badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to support the most important free software project on the planet, and get your hands on some cool playables and wearables early. The release page is still being filled in, but the changelog has detailed information about the goodies in this release."
And then again, there's SF fandom, where XL is considered medium. Says a lot about how fat some of them are, doesn't it?
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They're basically the only major operating system project that gives a damn about security. Sure, Linux, for instance, is better than Windows when it comes to security. But that's only because Microsoft has fucked up Windows' security so badly.
The OpenBSD developers, on the other hand, are proactive about security. Their coding practices and extensive code reviews prevent bugs and security problems in the first place.
OpenBSD is what you use when you need a system that's secure, stable, and will work for years without being touched. It's excellent for embedded systems, and is excellent for servers. We have some internal OpenBSD servers that haven't been rebooted in six years.
This utmost care permeates the entire OS. It makes it as close as we can get today to "perfect software". The only other project as close to OpenBSD in terms of quality and security is FreeBSD, which benefits a great deal from the code reviews and effort that the OpenBSD devs put in.
That's half the reason they are secure. The other half is who really knows much about OpenBSD? It's a small niche, much smaller then Linux and OSX and those 2 are considered so secure do to the lack of people knowing how to take advantage of them and their small user base. OpenBSD, while is very secure, does owe some, if not a lot, of it's security to security through obscurity. While I'm not saying no one understands OpenBSD, it's just a small user base that can and/or does use it.
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Not that I expect a coherent respond from someone who can't type I'm correctly but here goes. You wrote 3 rather long paragraphs yet still didn't manage to name one Windows Server related security issue, would you like to try again?
Security through obscurity? What are you talking about? Name a better documented OS or distro. Maybe you meant security due to small market share?
No, I mean security through obscurity. That means that part of the power of the system is a lack of users having a solid knowledge of the OS and it's finer details. That do not mean it's not well documented, it does not mean it doesn't have FAQ's, that does not mean that the information can't be found. It means that not many people know of the information. That is why I was highly advised to learn how to use BSD, not because it had a lack of information, but because it had a lack of qualified people who can properly utilize it. It's like things like quantum physics. Yes the information is out there about it, yes it can be learn, yes it is documented, yes there are text books well explaining the subject... doesn't make it a simple walk in the park to understand and most people don't have a solid grasp on it. It can be learned, but most people just don't know how to.
If you would like to better understand security through obscurity, here's the wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
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