While searching for 'OpenBSD "bad package" CONTENTS' I somehow came across this and got sucked in when I shouldn't have.
OpenBSD: Not Free Not Fuctional and Definetly Not Secure | BSD, the truth http://aboutthebsds{dot}wordpress{dot}com Well I had a go at educating the author of this thread but I guess without a response he modified my comments into utter lies and left them under my name. I guess the old adage that you can help the stupid but not the willfully ignorant is true. I knew he was an arch linux user and so I was expecting comment deletion in the case of moderator disagreement to the arguments (similar to the Arch Linux mailing lists where a moderators task being meant to have nothing to do with taking sides is ignored and is even more annoying when what you said was proven right by upstream a little later). Incidentally I expect similar to Lennart's pages as they are comment free. Sorry to be wasting your time or even mentioning this useless blog but I just wanted to put the record straight and to save time for anyone who stumbles across it and hope may now also see this in a Google search where it appears. Bear in mind these are counter points to his blog and not things I want to bring up. _____________________________________________________________________ I posted _____________________________________________________________________ It is extremely one sided! How about Linux allowing modules like Nvidia and far worse like Sony to be easily installed under the safe and free flag of their repo. I can tell you OpenBSD would not allow this and allow no binary blobs and with modules disabled by default, unlike FreeBSD and Linux allowing and even including by default binary blobs that does unknown things posibly with good intentions but full of exploits. You can take BSD and do freely whatever evil you want but you cannot abuse the trust users have in OpenBSD devs by flying your dodgy code in under their flag and so users radars. This is because BSD only precludes plagiarism and so using OpenBSD as a selling point when it may have been modified. There are many products using OpenBSD but this cannot be revealed directly. Linux try's but can't afford to sue Nvidia giving users a false sense of security but also well running games (I shall admit as I do give balance to my thoughts), but now they (Intel/AMD) are going open source which is extra great for the CAREful OpenBSD. And yes this CARE means it cannot go as quick as Linux thankfully as Torvalds can no longer check before OKaying potentially evil or insecure code (admitted himself). _____________________________________________________________________ The blog author posted anonymously after 'archlike moderation' _____________________________________________________________________ BSD allows modules like Nvidia and far worse like Sony to be easily installed under the safe and free flag of their repo. I can tell you OpenBSD freely allows this including non-free firmware and with modules enabled by default, like FreeBSD allowing and even including by default binary blobs that does unknown things posibly with good intentions but full of exploits. You can take BSD and do freely whatever evil you want including abuse the mindless trust users have in OpenBSD devs by flying dodgy code in under their flag and so users radars. Look at what Richard Stallman said about them. BSD encourages plagiarism and so using OpenBSD as a selling point when it may have been turning into proprietary software. There are many proprietary products using OpenBSD but this cannot be revealed directly because the code this now thiers. Linux impedes Nvidia from giving users a false sense of security but also well running games (I shall admit as I do give balance to my thoughts), but now they (Intel/AMD) are going open source which is extra great for the CAREful Linux. BSD devs don't care for open source drivers (Intel/AMD). So they continue to suck proprietary cocks. Also, Linux thankfully has Torvalds to check before for any potential evil code before it is included in the source tree. ____________________________________________________________________ I posted about his systemd page. ____________________________________________________________________ Bane of BSD, it's hardly even mentioned on the OpenBSD list atleast, maybe two very short threads stemming from things like Gnome. Even Redhat devs have said it has very insignificant impact. Anything that takes s much time on Linux lists is almost guarnteed to have flaws. I wouldn't fancy OpenBSDs record of two holes in over a decade not incrementing if they ported systemd but of course they correctly wouldn't. There's been more holes in PAM than OpenBSD and the Linux kernel would be at hundreds of hole in less than a decade but of course a bugs a bug right. Ignorance is bliss and an easy life of course, hence Windows dominance. ______________________________________________________________________ The blog author posted anonymously after 'archlike moderation' ______________________________________________________________________ Bane of BSD, it's hardly even mentioned on the OpenBSD list atleast, maybe two very short threads stemming from things like Gnome. Even Redhat devs have said it has very insignificant impact. Anything that takes s much time on BSD lists is almost guarnteed to have flaws. I never fancy OpenBSDs record of two holes in over a decade not incrementing because they never ported systemd. There's been more holes in OpenBSD than PAM and the BSD kernel would be at hundreds of hole in less than a decade but of course a bugs a bug right. Ignorance is bliss and an easy life of course, hence Linux dominance. ______________________________________________________________________ I also posted but have not bothered to check what he did with it, ______________________________________________________________________ PF and Carp are ace with PF used by Apple and Blackberry and is interrupt driven and won't include any DPI because they know better. How about OpenBSD prevents GNU kernels from running BSD code like OpenSSH and watch the exploits insue in their copy like happens with PAM et al. If Linux tried to put ? holes in just their kernel in a heck of a long time on kernel.org it would be laughable. Truth hurts doesn't it and systemd is crap and actually hardly mentioned on BSD lists. Why do you care if KMS isn't GNU, you need to reflect on the pointless hurt you would cause. KMS helps prevetn exploits via the GPU but Linux likely doesn't care about that as they still run Xorg as root despite OpenBSD patches being FREE to be ported. _______________________________________________________________________ -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
