From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 10:30:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518CF16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from guri.is.scarlet.be (guri.is.scarlet.be [193.74.71.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58F443D3F for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:30:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beni.brinckman@scarlet.be) Received: from (ip-213-49-86-58.dsl.scarlet.be [213.49.86.58]) by guri.is.scarlet.be with ESMTP id j2DAUOC04488 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:30:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4234161A.40706@scarlet.be> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:29:46 +0100 From: beni User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050310) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050312123840.19848c79.alfredoj69@gmail.com> <42332DF7.2030309@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <42332DF7.2030309@verizon.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsdbeni@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:30:28 -0000 bsdzz wrote: > >> "On the other hand, no, Linux does not have that stupid notion of >> having totally separate kernel development for different issues. If >> you want a secure BSD, you get OpenBSD; if you want a usable BSD, you >> get FreeBSD; and if you want BSD on other architectures, you get >> NetBSD. That___s just idiotic, to have different teams worry about >> different things." >> >> >> > I guess Linus didn't have anything to say about the 200 different > versions of Linux, with their 200 different installers, and 200 > different file hierachies, and their multiple package management systems. > >> Why not all three teams work together for just one BSD version? >> > If I remember correctly, there are multiple versions of BSD because > the teams could not work together. Indeed. I'm not judging nor do I know what its all about, but things like this won't bring the BSD's together... From: Theo de Raadt To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [BSD-Misc] FreeBSD hiding security stuff A few FreeBSD developers apparently have found some security issue of some sort affecting i386 operating systems in some cases. They have refused to give us real details. A promise is now being made. If a bug is found in OpenSSH, which we believe to have security consequences, we wil inform FreeBSD last. Fair is fair. I really wish it was not this way, but after a week of trying to get the policy to be fixed, we are changing our policy as well. Without immediate action from them to repair their policy, and a public apology for this, that policy will stand. Beni.