On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:31:01PM -0800, Dennis Eberl wrote:
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>Yes, that (i.e., security) seems to be Van Rhadt's (if I have his name correct)
>main technical grip with the FreeBSD and NetBSD releases. OpenBSD is "secure" out
De Raadt, IIRC.
>of the box. I'm hoping to find the BSDs a little easier to configure as well.
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>Thanks for pointing out OpenBSD's salability. I hadn't thought of that. Don't laugh,
>but can you get it (qua firewall) down to a diskette (or two) in size a la the Linux
>Router Project (LRP) and its permutations?
Theo has not demonstrated much interest in that; i suppose you could do
picOpenBSD in the style of picoBSD, but it would take a fair amount of work...
http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/
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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.--Charles Babbage
