On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Folks, since we are at it, does anyone knows why 'OpenBSD' is spelled
> like that and not 'openbsd' . I was ponder that for a time, because I
> know you all hate camelCase notation.
In this context, "OpenBSD" is a proper noun, and therefore
On 2016-10-29, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Folks, since we are at it, does anyone knows why 'OpenBSD' is spelled
> like that and not 'openbsd' . I was ponder that for a time, because I
> know you all hate camelCase notation.
> Is it ok open_bsd?
For better security:
set -A c l u; for i in o p e n b
Folks, since we are at it, does anyone knows why 'OpenBSD' is spelled
like that and not 'openbsd' . I was ponder that for a time, because I
know you all hate camelCase notation.
Is it ok open_bsd?
Many thanks :-)
> there is no philosophy.
>
> there was no belief.
>
> maybe there was a touch of idealism, but nothing as refined as you
> suggest.
>
> it was simply a decision made for a handful of things which got reused
> for the rest of them.
>
> back decades ago.
Hi Dan,
Sounds good reasonable decision
> Stuart Henderson already answered that:
> It's easier for the system administrator to have all
> configuration files in one place and on one file system:
> less places to remember for backup and when migrating
> configuration to a new machine.
Thanks.
> Nothing particular, except that simplicit
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:21:13 -0600 "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> > > > Different design, different philosophy, and different goals [1] but the
> > > > same BSD heritage.
> > >
> > > There is no philosophy involved.
> > >
> > > England and the US and Canada are not differences in philosophy.
> > >
>
Hi,
kuniyo...@free.fr wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:44:12AM +0200:
> I wonder if there was a technical reason
Stuart Henderson already answered that:
It's easier for the system administrator to have all
configuration files in one place and on one file system:
less places to remember for backu
Hello.
Thank you for your answers (man hier(7)). Just a clarification. I was
imprecise. Sorry. My question was rather technical: I wonder if there was a
technical reason in particular related to security.
I know: FreeBSD is not OpenBSD. I use these two operating systems. And indeed,
they are diff
> > > Different design, different philosophy, and different goals [1] but the
> > > same BSD heritage.
> >
> > There is no philosophy involved.
> >
> > England and the US and Canada are not differences in philosophy.
> >
> > They are just different. philosophy has little to do with it.
> >
> >
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 23:16:50 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Different design, different philosophy, and different goals [1] but the
> > same BSD heritage.
>
> There is no philosophy involved.
>
> England and the US and Canada are not differences in philosophy.
>
> They are just different.
> Different design, different philosophy, and different goals [1] but the
> same BSD heritage.
There is no philosophy involved.
England and the US and Canada are not differences in philosophy.
They are just different. philosophy has little to do with it.
Stop using that word incorrectly, ple
> > I am a (happy) operating system user OpenBSD -current (architecture amd64)
> > on my laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X200s. :)
> >
> > I would like to learn more about this system. I'm curious. I recently
> > realized that the third-party software configuration files were in "/etc"
> > instead of "/u
On 10/27/16 21:17, kuniyo...@free.fr wrote:
Hello.
I am a (happy) operating system user OpenBSD -current (architecture amd64) on
my laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X200s. :)
I would like to learn more about this system. I'm curious. I recently realized that the third-party
software configuration files
On 2016-10-27, kuniyo...@free.fr wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am a (happy) operating system user OpenBSD -current (architecture amd64) on
> my laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X200s. :)
>
> I would like to learn more about this system. I'm curious. I recently
> realized that the third-party software configuratio
Hello.
I am a (happy) operating system user OpenBSD -current (architecture amd64) on
my laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X200s. :)
I would like to learn more about this system. I'm curious. I recently realized
that the third-party software configuration files were in "/etc" instead of
"/usr/local/etc" t
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