On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:14 -0400, Protocol Six Consulting wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I love using OpenBSD in the networks I administer.
>It does what I need simply, elegantly and with great power (not to
>mention for free)
>
>When I tell others about OpenBSD I can easily tell them what I like, but
>I was also curious what sort of ("verifiable") factoids folks here
>highlight when advocating for OpenBSD.
>
>
>Some of the ones I've jotted down are:
>
>OpenBSD:
>
>" Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!"
>- from the project site, obviously
>
>" An OS that has some of the cleanest code around" - paraphrased from an
>interview with Theo by a local news channel
>
>"Amount of attacks on a webserver can go down by 40% just because the
>bad guys see it is running OpenBSD" - would love to know where that
>originally comes from!!
>
>"Made by the same people that make OpenSSH, which just about everybody
>uses for secure remote access"
>
>"The OpenBSD project currently maintains ports for 17 different hardware
>platforms" - from Wikipedia, possibly dated.
>
>"The project is also noted for the exceptional documentation and a
>community that expects its users to have read the documentation before
>asking any technical questions" -
>
>
>I'd love to hear more one-liners like this. :-)
Then you would like the first sentence of this:
OpenBSD is quite possibly the most secure operating system on the
planet. Every step of the development process focuses on building a
secure, open, and free platform. UNIX. and Linux. administrators take
note: Without realizing it, you probably use tools ported from OpenBSD
every day. Maybe it's time to give the whole operating system a closer
look.
Full article is at:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html
Rod/
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