softwareinreview.com — Want to use the world's most secure free software operating system, but don't want to spend hours learning how to use it? Just in time for next week's 3.9 release, this guide has a bunch of tips and tricks for getting OpenBSD up and running with many extras: the Java Development Kit, multi-core or multi-CPU support, Linux binary support, and more.
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scuzzo84Apr 25, 2006
I love Theo, lets kill Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman
willcode4beerApr 25, 2006
"Want to use the world's most secure free software operating system, but don't want to spend hours learning how to use it?"Seems like not wanting to learn how to use it will make it not the "most secure free software operating system".
bhimaApr 25, 2006
Just so you know.. there is a great page on *really* securing OpenBSD... a little googling will show you.I have not tried it on 3.9 yet but on 3.8 it looked to me to be invincible (within reason)
merdelyApr 25, 2006
What's wrong with <a class="user" href="http://www.openbsd.org/">http://www.openbsd.org/</a> or <a class="user" href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/">http://www.openbsd.org/faq/</a> ?
charlesdingusApr 26, 2006
emperortomato:Excellent question. You should check out the following linksThe BSD family tree<a class="user" href="http://www.tribug.org/famtree.html">http://www.tribug.org/famtree.html</a>OpenBSD project goals:<a class="user" href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html</a>FreeBSD introduction:<a class="user" href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html</a>FreeBSD and NetBSD forked from the 4.3BSD code in the early 90s. I believe FreeBSD's original goal was focused on performance on the 386 platform while NetBSD was intended to support as many architectures as possible. Someone can correct me on that. At any rate, today FreeBSD supports many architectures and NetBSD performs very well regardless so the lines have blurred.OpenBSD forked from NetBSD in 1996 due primarily to friction between Theo Deraadt and the core NetBSD team. OpenBSD prides itself on regular code audits, code 'correctness' sometimes at the expense of performance, and a 'secure by default' configuration. They are all very good operating systems with different philosophies, communities and quirks.
willcode4beerApr 26, 2006
The security by obscurity crowd say that security and market share are inversely proportional.;-)
whoutzApr 26, 2006
The whole point of using BSD, is to brag that you're smart enough to rtfm.