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Among those "cute pet projects" are OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, and PF. The internet at large, and even FreeBSD itself, would be all the poorer for not having
by Cyberdog 7y ago
Among those "cute pet projects" are OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, and PF. The internet at large, and even FreeBSD itself, would be all the poorer for not having these projects available.
As someone who has run web servers with both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I think some of your criticism in this thread is valid, but you really crossed the line into blatant fanboyism with that one at the least.
- pushpop 7y agoOnly really OpenSSH from your list applies though. LibreSSL isn’t really in widespread usage outside of OpenBSD and has still been vulnerable to some of recent the OpenSSL exploits. OpenNTPD is more widely used but lots of people still go for other alternatives and frankly I’m not convinced OpenNTPD offers anything significant over the competition anyway. pf is barely used outside of OpenBSD and frankly why should it be when Linux has iptables (which does the job well) and FreeBSD has ipfw (which also does the job well). pf is also a decent firewall but it’s also a crowded market with lots of really decent alternatives written by their respective platform hosts. I do actually quite like OpenBSD though. But outside of OpenSSH, OpenBSD is slowly becoming less relevant to the wider industry as other platforms catch up on security and even over take in terms of enterprise features.
- aquabeagle 7y agopf is shipped on macOS and iOS as well.