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Theo still makes his own wheels with a hammer and a chisel. Rubber, store-bought tires are for pansies... only joking... I buy CDs and t-shirts and no matter wh
by 16s 16y ago
Theo still makes his own wheels with a hammer and a chisel. Rubber, store-bought tires are for pansies... only joking... I buy CDs and t-shirts and no matter what free Unix you use, do buy CDs because the CD sales also support OpenSSH and we all use that!
- jrockway 16y agoThe rubber store-bought tires all have huge holes in them that the vendors would prefer you ignore. I am not a C fan, but I've read the OpenBSD code and it's solid. Instead of ignoring the details like integer truncation, string length, and error checking, they actually care about this stuff. The result is a reliable system instead of a mostly-reliable system.
- silentbicycle 16y agoAny time people ask for C code to read, I recommend the OpenBSD userland. Between that, the outstanding man pages, and the thoroughly integrated memory protection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features#Memory_protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features#Memor...), OpenBSD is an excellent platform for C development.