[vcf-midatlantic] The BSDs, was Re: 30 Years of Linux

[Dave McGuire]

On 8/26/21 8:03 AM, David Riley wrote:
>>  Not long after, a childish spat between some of the more headstrong
>> core NetBSD developers resulted in one of them taking his toys and
>> stomping off in a huff, forming OpenBSD.  The tagline there was that
>> they were focused on security, but for years all that meant was
>> everything was commented out in the as-shipped inetd.conf.
> 
> Theo is quite a personality, but time seems to have improved things in that regard.

  That's one way to put it.  He was a real dick to me when I offered to
help him out.  I filed him away in the "life's too short for this BS"
category.

> OpenBSD is, currently, a pretty good force for security (they drive OpenSSH and LibreSSL, and the OpenBSD kernel has been at the forefront of some very good security practices for the last decade or so).  I run a rather complex routing arrangement on my OpenBSD box (a PC Engines apu4, which is a pretty decent machine for the price) and I've been pretty happy overall.  Drivers need some love, though.

  Yes, some good people have joined that project over the years, and
have done some great things.  I guess most people have forgotten how it
started.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA