hmm, on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 06:20:13PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011, frantisek holop wrote: > > > > > it's not like there are no reasonable alternatives. nginx for example > > has a nice security record and a 2 clause bsd license. but as it's in > > the ports i personally dont care if it's in base or ports. sendmail and > > apache are really the only things in openbsd base that baffle me > > everytime i cross paths with them. they represent everything the > > openbsd philosophy refuses. > > They represent the backwards compatible and don't go chasing the newest > thing because it's new parts of the philosophy. That doesn't mean the > same choices to include them would be made today, but the decision isn't > being made today either.
choices are being made every day :] plenty of examples in openbsd for much more radical changes, openbsd is certainly not in the category of the faint hearted. (ripping out a whole firewall anyone?) now this is not about me pushing e.g. nginx as an apache replacement in base. before these very usable alternatives i was quite happy to have a reliable web server in base, just like anyone else. but for me it's really time to move on. -f -- name a psychological rock group? pink freud!
