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I bet the MCRN Rocinante’s computers are running OpenBSD.

by jamesfmilne 6y ago

HeckFeck 6y ago
It's the only OS the protomolecule couldn't breach.
- gbrown_ 6y ago
  Doors and corners...
bpodgursky 6y ago
To be pedantic, it was only the MCRN Tachi. "Now" it's just the Rocinante.
- gbrown_ 6y ago
  It's legitimate salvage!
  - hedora 6y ago
    It has a signed plaque and everything!
lsllc 6y ago
So, what you're saying is that 2307 is going to be the year of the OpenBSD Desktop? (on Mars at least, the Earthers probably use NetBSD and the Belters FreeBSD).
arp242 6y ago
Given how easy the Rocinante can be hacked to explode or arbitrary change transponder codes, I'm not sure if it's good advertisement for OpenBSD.
- walrus01 6y ago
  to extend that to its logical conclusion, if you have full access to the hardware, many things are possible. so you've stolen a desktop computer and it has unbreakable full disk encryption, but you don't care about the data, you just want to use the computer? remove the M.2 NVME SSD and replace it with your own, install a new operating system. or boot the thing from a dban ISO and wipe the SSD, re-use it.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    Some in-show evidence that there may not be much variety in computing platforms is that several screens we see in different ships have the same graphical elements but have been localised to english and lang belta respectively. Judging from our past several decades of network effects, I'd guess earth-origin operating systems will still dominate, with perhaps a long tail of poorly-adopted alternatives (as with, on the language side, BELTABOL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTGjy9KeW4cqagXHlVDwKmcZ1mEz6u-K/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTGjy9KeW4cqagXHlVDwKmcZ1mE... ).
  - justaj 6y ago
    Wouldn't something like Secure Boot help against that though?
    - walrus01 6y ago
      without going into too much spoiler like detail, at one point a martian marine who presumably has admin access over the ship, gives an order to the ship to give the equivalent of root to everyone on board. presumably this would be like copying a dm-crypt/LUKS secret key or similar.
- hedora 6y ago
  Like OpenBSD, it’s user friendly, but it’s particular about who it’s friends are.

I bet the MCRN Rocinante’s computers are running OpenBSD.

HeckFeck 6y ago

It's the only OS the protomolecule couldn't breach.

gbrown_ 6y ago
Doors and corners...

bpodgursky 6y ago

To be pedantic, it was only the MCRN Tachi. "Now" it's just the Rocinante.

gbrown_ 6y ago
It's legitimate salvage!
- hedora 6y ago
  It has a signed plaque and everything!

lsllc 6y ago

So, what you're saying is that 2307 is going to be the year of the OpenBSD Desktop? (on Mars at least, the Earthers probably use NetBSD and the Belters FreeBSD).

arp242 6y ago

Given how easy the Rocinante can be hacked to explode or arbitrary change transponder codes, I'm not sure if it's good advertisement for OpenBSD.

walrus01 6y ago
to extend that to its logical conclusion, if you have full access to the hardware, many things are possible. so you've stolen a desktop computer and it has unbreakable full disk encryption, but you don't care about the data, you just want to use the computer? remove the M.2 NVME SSD and replace it with your own, install a new operating system. or boot the thing from a dban ISO and wipe the SSD, re-use it.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  Some in-show evidence that there may not be much variety in computing platforms is that several screens we see in different ships have the same graphical elements but have been localised to english and lang belta respectively. Judging from our past several decades of network effects, I'd guess earth-origin operating systems will still dominate, with perhaps a long tail of poorly-adopted alternatives (as with, on the language side, BELTABOL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTGjy9KeW4cqagXHlVDwKmcZ1mEz6u-K/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTGjy9KeW4cqagXHlVDwKmcZ1mE... ).
- justaj 6y ago
  Wouldn't something like Secure Boot help against that though?
  - walrus01 6y ago
    without going into too much spoiler like detail, at one point a martian marine who presumably has admin access over the ship, gives an order to the ship to give the equivalent of root to everyone on board. presumably this would be like copying a dm-crypt/LUKS secret key or similar.
hedora 6y ago
Like OpenBSD, it’s user friendly, but it’s particular about who it’s friends are.