OpenBSD receives equipment donation worth $10,000

One of the many Anonymous Cowards let me know that OpenBSD has received a donation of equipment worth $10,000 from Network Security Technologies and Network Security Wizards. This is obviously excellent news for the OpenBSD team, and is yet more evidence of the seriousness with which the wider commercial world is treating free software.

Comments

Re:HA!

[NovaX]

That's because everyone knows its just so damn cool we can just sit back and share a smile. :-)

Kudos

[StormCrow99]

Kudos to Theo et. al. for finally getting the recognition they so much deserve..

OpenBSD may well end up being the best of the bunch if it can get the support is so needs. I think that as people realize the need for security, more people will come to appreciate OpenBSD.

-] Crow

You do realize slashdot is into LINUX advocacy?

[Nonesuch]

Why would OpenBSD people come to a Linux advocacy site and hunt down articles about OpenBSD?

The *BSD fans have been made well-aware by many /. users that we have few friends here...

Just be happy you got in a first post.

Re:You do realize slashdot is into LINUX advocacy?

[Mr. Flibble]

I am a Open Source advocate (regardless of whether it is Linux BSD or otherwise.) Sure, there are a bunch of Script Kiddie types on Slashdot, but there are also a good deal of intelligent types too.

I don't see it as a Linux only advocacy site, but Linux IS more popular than BSD as an Open Source operating system (at least it gets more hype).

Re:You do realize slashdot is into LINUX advocacy?

[NovaX]

I know this article is on Daily Daemon News, which many BSD readers go to. I wouldn't which board had the article first, but that doesn't mean OpenBSD people hunted it down for Slashdot.. they may have hunted it down for BSD people.

Also, I thought NT people where well-aware of how many friends they had. I think on slashdot, both NT and BSD have been given bad tones, with BSD getting some lenancy as its open source and one can't play the FUD games as easily. The post of the top 10 list showed a good number of NT users, and less bashing than one would think possible on slashdot. Maybe readers are growing up, or more likely, there's a whole mess of people linux posters (the FUDders & zealots) don't realise exist.

Re:You do realize slashdot is into LINUX advocacy?

[nikc]

Nonesuch wrote:

The *BSD fans have been made well-aware by many /. users that we have few friends here...

That's lamentably true. I hope that the new BSD section will help turn that around by increasing the number of BSD articles that make it to /., which will increase their awareness of the BSDs, and what they can do.

Obviously, time will tell. However, I can say that based on my time on the slashdot-authors mailing list it's recognized that /. is still perceived as being Linux only, and that we're all working to try and shift that perception. But it won't happen overnight.

The easiest way to speed it up is to start submitting good BSD stories, the more the merrier.

And to reply to NovaX's point: yes, this story was also mentioned on Daemon News -- however, I didn't need to copy it from there, as an OpenBSD advocate had submitted it here as well.

N

Sheesh

[bifrost]

Its like nobody on Slashdot cares about meaningful things. A 10k donation to OBSD is like a 100k donation towards Linux. Linux already has the name recognition. If you say 'Linux' to the average IT guy, they'll sit there and look like they're stoned for a lil bit. OpenBSD just gets "Huh? Is that like a Bondage thing?"
I hope that people who see this realize what that donation is going to do. Its personally making me very partial to the IDS system that the donator sells, and gosh, it seems to run *GREAT* on OpenBSD why not use that... And yes, I need to do Gig-E IDS because I damn well feel like it!

First posters...

[dcs]

Actually, I think it goes to show that BSD people are not so lacking in self-confidence that they need to talk just to hear their own voice, or write silly "first posts" just to read their words.

It is not in the least surprising that it's a non-BSDer who did it.

cool...

[jdube]

This is a LITTLE off topic, but what would be a good BSD to start on? I tried installing Net and Free but for some reason my new (new, no other OS ever on it) HD won1t boot them... gives me a blinking cursor as if there's nothing there. Any help? I may take it to pcs for everyone (where I got it) and talk to them.. it IS a Seagate which is a part of Microsoft so maybe THAT has something to do with it, even though it was listed as UNIX-Friendly. Thanks.
If you think you know what the hell is really going on you're probably full of shit.

Re:cool...

[NovaX]

Seagate is part of Microsoft? I've never heard that one. lol.. unix friendly hard drives. Any IDE/SCSI drive that complies to the standard, with the controller supported, will work... And before I ask relavent questions, if you have problems theres always email support (ie freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) or newgroups.. even irc and perhaps a BSD UG in your area.

Since the drives new, my first responce (1024 cyulinder limit) is useless. I'm not quite sure what to ask.. just a dumb one, you did set an active partition, right? :^)

Re:cool...

[Boolean]

Heh heh, yeah, I activated the partition. I sort of assumed that Seagate was a part of seagate as there were M$ logos pasted over the whole thing, but I'm not to in to the hardware scene so I'm not too sure. Thanks for the help!

Intel Dig

[tweir]

Loved the little dig at Intel for not releasing specs...they may say they're OSS friendly, but are they really?

Good for Theo!

[FreeMyBSD]

This will be very good for OpenBSD.

I use both OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I have to say
that OpenBSD is extremely well-suited for security
and is an impressive OS.