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From: "Tom Spindler" <dogcow@us.itd.umich.edu>
Subject: why mycroft loves openbsd, as explained by umich wankers
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:05:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Douglas Song <dugsong@umich.edu>
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To: Tom Spindler <dogcow@us.itd.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: OpenBSD being ported to NeXT hardware
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Tom Spindler wrote:
> Unless mycroft has moved to california and his writing style has gone way
> downhill, I'd be surprised if this port was being undertaken by the "real"
> mycroft. (especially with mycroft being a netbsd core member, and theo's
> weenieism causing the net/openbsd split.)
without getting into the politics of the bsd pissing match, openbsd is
just simply more complete code. it is netbsd, plus the best of freebsd
(except their VM system! politics.), and many additional fixes (mostly
obscure security patches). it has a more liberal development policy, which
people both like and dislike, but was apparently the reason for CITI's
move to it from netbsd. having tried and looked at the source for all
three, i have to concur with the CITI guys - openbsd has a real advantage
because of their open CVS tree, regardless of what kind of person theo is.
fixes get into openbsd months before net or freebsd, and hackers looking
for bsd holes regularly scour the log of recent openbsd commits for
net/freebsd vulnerabilities. openbsd is for hackers - net and freebsd are
for people who want their code committed based on their reputation
(oversimplified, but true nonetheless)...
so i wouldn't put it totally past mycroft (if it really is him) to defect
to openbsd, all things considered (especially his interest in security).
---
dugsong@{UMICH.EDU,monkey.org}
programmer, sysadmin, resident advisor, dork.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dugsong/
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