Hahahahahahahahahaha.. Reeeeeaallly!!! :)
You should have sent this a couple of days ago as an April fools, I
genuinly thought it was at first.
Anyway it seems like enough people have already replied so I won't add
any more. Just had to reply because this geuninly made me laugh out loud.
Good luck and happy learning. OpenBSD is a learning curve but one which
will pay off if you persevere (especially if you're trying to use it for
network services).
On 04/04/14 03:04, Martin Braun wrote:
As we all know on the front page of OpenBSD it says "Only two remote holes
in the default install, in a heck of a long time".
I don't understand why this is "such a big deal".
A part from the base system in xBSD, OpenBSD - so far - also contains a
chrooted web server, that can't be used for much else than serving static
content, and then the X system, which also can't be used for anything
before installing some third party application.
All in all the default install is pretty useless in itself and I am going
to quote "Absolute OpenBSD" by Michael Lucas:
«You're installed OpenBSD and rebooted into a bare-bones system. Of
course, a minimal Unix-like system is actually pretty boring. While it
makes a powerful foundation, it doesn't actually do much of anything.»
So we need those third party applications to start the party, yet none of
these applications receives the same code audit, security development and
quality control as OpenBSD does.
As soon as we install a single third party application our entire operating
system is, in theory at least, compromised as these third party
applications gets installed as root.
Maybe I am just plain stupid, but could someone explain to me the point in
"bragging" about only two remote holes in the default install, when the
default install is useless before you add some content to the system,
unless you're running a web server serving static content only.
Best regards.
Martin
