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The link that points to [1] states the difference in where the money goes for CDs/donating. I wasn't aware of this split. [1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130322381504860&w...
It seems so strange that a group of some of the most knowledgable geeks we have rely on CD's to generate important parts of their funding.
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The link that points to [1] states the difference in where the money goes for CDs/donating. I wasn't aware of this split. [1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130322381504860&w...
It seems so strange that a group of some of the most knowledgable geeks we have rely on CD's to generate important parts of their funding.
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What are some reasons for OpenBSD not being a more popular OS on web servers? I always wondered about this, as on paper OpenBSD (and FreeBSD) seem like they have the edge but most server admins end up running linux. Another case of linux being slightly easier to use and doing the job well enough?
I'm a big fan of FreeBSD/OpenBSD as server OS's. I've put OpenBSD/pf to great use as firewall machines, as they're VERY easy to configure, and the docs are most everything you need. FreeBSD has been great for general-purpose workloads. For some time OpenBSD has been regarded as "slow", in big part because it couldn't use large amounts of RAM, and it scaled across multiple cores poorly. I'm not sure if this is still t…
You might not run OpenBSD, but if you're running ssh on your Linux system, then you're actually running OpenSSH from the OpenBSD project. If you appreciate being able to access your systems more securely through ssh, please consider supporting the project by buying a CD set, tshirt or poster from them. http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html
Actually it will run Portable OpenSSH. If you really care about donating for that cause, contacting the porting team might be a good idea.
Its actually one of the easiest O.S to install and work with when it comes to back-end servers for running network infrastructure type services (vpn, firewall, chat server, torrent server, dns, dhcp etc. etc.) - nothing comes close.
What are some reasons for OpenBSD not being a more popular OS on web servers? I always wondered about this, as on paper OpenBSD (and FreeBSD) seem like they have the edge but most server admins end up running linux. Another case of linux being slightly easier to use and doing the job well enough?
After Linux and the BSDs, are the other major offshoots of *nix? Solaris?
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Plan 9 is the only real Unix offshoot.
I just played with Plan 9 this weekend on VirtualBox. It seems pretty awesome; too bad it never really took off.
You might not run OpenBSD, but if you're running ssh on your Linux system, then you're actually running OpenSSH from the OpenBSD project. If you appreciate being able to access your systems more securely through ssh, please consider supporting the project by buying a CD set, tshirt or poster from them. http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html
"IPsec stack audit was performed, resulting in: Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed." ...nice euphemism.
What do you mean?