I noticed a blurb about DARPA funding about a month ago. I liked it. OpenBSD is known is some circles as one of, if not THE, most secure *nix OS. Especially of the free variety. I have been using OpenBSD extensively for its VPN gateway prowess and also as a snort/IDS box. I love it! It works extremely well for a < 200 meg secure system. And that is with X included!!! Not necessarily your garden variety Desktop OS, but it is WONDERFUL on the back end.
Shannon On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 19:30, John Hebert wrote: > Hackers Meet Soldiers > by George Peter Staplin and Cameron Laird > 03/13/2003 > > OpenBSD is widely recognized as "one of those other OSes"--an operating > system available, like Linux, without licensing fee, but with its own > character distinct from any other OS. Only recently, though, have people > begun to learn that that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects > Agency (DARPA) partially funds the Canadian-based OpenBSD project. Why > is the US military paying ideology-driven foreign hackers? What's the > effect on development of the OS? > > ... > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html > > -- > John Hebert > System Engineer > http://www.it-group.com > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
