ben_bai

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   by ben_bai 11y ago

   Yes, it's still true. /(s)bin is for booting a minimal system i.e. for maintainance and those binaries are statically linked. /usr/(s)bin is the rest of the base system. /usr/local/(s)bin is for packages&#
2. 302.▲
   by ben_bai 11y ago

   I second that motion. Try it (OpenBSD with pf). I have not played with traffic shaping for myself but as always with OpenBSD I guess i would be surprised how well it works. set prio, set queue and set tos seems to be the "tools" t
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   by ben_bai 12y ago

   CVS fits their development methodology just fine, so far. Having a central CVS repo, where development is done in "head" which gets branched every 6 months for a release. Contributions are supposed to never break "head",
4. 304.▲
   by ben_bai 12y ago

   SSLv3 is so 1996... Please, please, please with sugar on top, use TLS only. Also there are lots of changes in the software world in the last 20 years, which the SSL codebase didn't keep up with (mainly meaning OpenSSL).
5. 305.▲
   by ben_bai 12y ago

   ZFS is production ready. Use FreeBSD!
6. 306.▲
   by ben_bai 12y ago

   Not really. There is this list [0] of security considerations for ports, which is a good starting point. Everybody writing in the same style [1] doesn't hurt either. [0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.
7. 307.▲
   by ben_bai 12y ago

   Save yourself the download, the following script provides the same functionality on OpenBSD. rm /etc/firmware/*; rm /usr/sbin/fw_update; reboot But in the end this is stupid and not at all what BLOB-free means.