On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 05:59:14 -0700 Andrew Fabbro <[email protected]> wrote:
> OpenBSD has supported UTF-8 since...2010ish? A long time. point taken. yes, it may have been that long... I may have to try it out again and report back since i do need another virtual server for a database anyways, as i have too much other "stuff" running on my present server. > ... Linux's lack of development of anything > similar to pledge :-) If you missed pledge, Theo has several talks > on YouTube about it, e.g.: > > 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7S1eqKsFk > > 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzJJbNRErVQ > > What is your ultimate goal? A secure system? There are numerous > security features that OpenBSD has that Linux doesn't have and > refuses to add. Does Linux have pledge? pledge is well and good, and definitely to be commended, but from my understanding that is an internal security feature for a program to secure itself, not to provide an extra layer of security on third-party programs (ports) which the OpenBSD team does not necessarily have the time to audit or the clout to effect upstream security patches, especially for openbsd-specific improvements. the selinux security policies > Random PIDs? these are definitely an option in the Linux kernel, with or without SELinux. i am not really sure why the distributions don't enable them by default, but at the same time i am not sure of the importance of the ability to guess a process' PID versus the permission of any user to view a complete ps listing. > OpenBSD has had native support for running as a VM host officially > since 6.1 earlier this year: http://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4 that is very new then, awesome! > BTW, you can actually run OpenBSD on any VM/VPS provider that offers > KVM. There's nothing special about Vultr other than that they > streamline the install. Nothing against them and they're a fine > provider, but it's trivial to run OpenBSD on thousands of VM > providers. Typically you mount the ISO in the provider's Solus (or > whatever) control panel, boot off it in the console, and then it's a > standard bsd.rd install. yes and I have. i just noticed and i thought it worth mentioning that that particular provider now has a convenient preinstalled image for OpenBSD, (whereas before i installed it just as you described.) unfortunately, i am on a budget, so i bought a cheap laptop for <$200, kicked windows 10 and office 365 off and installed fedora linux, because openbsd does not support the hardware on it. however i certainly can run openbsd as a vm guest on this laptop when i have the time to experiment with it -- 4g memory and 4 cores amd64 -- otherwise a rather basic barebones model, no bluetooth, no cdrom. funny story, i bought the laptop at target downtown seattle, and as soon as i got online with linux, i bought a cheap plane ticket to anchorage leaving that evening, and i skipped town to get away from that marijuana-dealing city attorney who was filing false criminal charges against me http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pot/2014/07/11/city-attorney-pete-holmes-apologizes-for-taking-pot-to-work/ having me falsely committed to the state insane asylum in steilacoom, where they threw a chair at me clear from redmond, and so on and so forth. people these days are just so amazingly complicit in organized crime, in total denial of the holocaust-level white nationalist war crimes taking place, while doing absolutely nothing to stop such crimes. "HP Notebook Model 14-an012nr" "Realtek Radio Model RTL8188EE"
