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It is not even a remotely meaningless metric. OpenBSD doing NOTHING by default is exactly what I want. Somebody said that sshd starts by default, but actually
by blhack 6y ago
It is not even a remotely meaningless metric.
OpenBSD doing NOTHING by default is exactly what I want. Somebody said that sshd starts by default, but actually it doesn't unless you specify that you want it to during installation.
When you finish an openBSD installation, you are presented with a fully functioning system that will boot up to a shell, which has a networking stack available, and will allow you to then install the things you want.
That's what I want a computer to do. I don't want it to start up the kitchen sink unless I ask it to.
- diffeomorphism 6y ago> OpenBSD doing NOTHING by default is exactly what I want. True, but that does not have anything to do with the metric. For example, see https://xkcd.com/641/ https://xkcd.com/641/ . Cereal being asbestos-free is definitely a good thing and "exactly what I want". Yet, people will complain about that advertisement. Or "No vulnerabilities in the webservers turned on by default^1. Also, all default-enabled webservers are giraffes." 1: There are none, so this is true.