User: Peter Verhage

Re:Another wrong fact:

On: IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed

No that's not entirely true. Ipfilter is more advanced then Ipfw, but it is true that FreeBSD's standard firewall is ipfw.

Ports support update feature!

On: FreeBSD 4.3 Released

This is something I think many people have been waiting for:

pkg_update(1), a utility to update installed packages and update their dependencies, has been added.

:)

Re:Corporate strategy

On: Windows Marketing Executive Doug Miller

Transmeta isn't Linux. Because Linus works for Transmeta it does not necessarily mean they are a Linux only company. Microsoft wants to use the Transmeta processor because it's the best solution (at the moment) for their product specification.

Re:Best PackageManager is The Ports Collection

On: Ximian's Red Carpet Released

pkg_version -v ouputs something like this (and a whole lot more of this):

screen-3.9.8_3 needs updating (index has 3.9.8_5)
sox-12.16 needs updating (index has 12.17.1)
tcl-8.3.1 * multiple versions (index has 8.0.5,8.2.3,8.3.1)
tiff-3.5.5 = up-to-date with index

As you can see this says enough about versions, and it also tells you what needs an update, and what doesn't...

Re:Stupid fix.. but none the less....

On: Vulnerability In SSH1

If you cvsup to FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE you will get OpenSSH 2.3 :) Ok, I know it's not a small step to cvsup from 3.x to 4.x, but it could be worth it in many different areas.

Re:How do AOL make money from Mozilla?

On: Has Netscape's Browser Become Too Self-Serving?

Many companies make money by giving support for their open-source products. This is the most preferable way of making money with open-source software I think. No more stupid advertisements bar(s) everyone hates...