From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 04:16:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F82106566C for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richo@psych0tik.net) Received: from bedford.accountservergroup.com (bedford.accountservergroup.com [50.22.11.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E108FC0C for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boxand.lnk.telstra.net ([203.45.130.125] helo=richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au) by bedford.accountservergroup.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnMwQ-0005yu-Nq; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:16:07 -0600 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:16:12 +1100 From: richo To: Atom Smasher Message-ID: <20120118041612.GF29529@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au> References: <4F15B1AA.4020400@my.gd> <4F15C520.6090200@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://natalya.psych0tik.net/~richo/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bedford.accountservergroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - psych0tik.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:08 -0000 --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline On 18/01/12 10:07 +1300, Atom Smasher wrote: >On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: > >>To be fair, it could be worse -- OpenBSD secretly wants you to run >>snapshots and CURRENT as the RELEASEs are mostly unmaintained >>outside of the most extreme security concerns. Even the packages >>are kept at the exact version of the time of release. >============= > >and how many corps are running openBSD? talk about an OS that seems >to exist only as a playground for its developers... > This is more or less like Debian in regards to their packaging. Admittedly, OpenBSD is way up there on the paranoia scale, but I know of plenty of big companies running OpenBSD on large scale routing infrastructure. -- richo || Today's excuse: Your Pentium has a heating problem - try cooling it with ice cold water.(Do not turn off your computer, you do not want to cool down the Pentium Chip while he isn't working, do you?) http://blog.psych0tik.net --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPFkeMAAoJEIKiWz6J5yQVNjoH/jSQz+WZuqmoC3shojlqwLJX g8JI7pgIcrziPTXbsESPr9cz3r8qFoNrCPkuCWrkti1XLZAPnRMR+a8psr1PQFCq pKB9HMQwCNuOnmHTEPK3SDQPBFzbOaUR7OH4QDcr54LpZ/R0pFMaRkRP/J2/hzv5 Tequ/mdC7Z79jeVXgNGfGaYDaiExTn9NRvQ1mNF3BDR9ZasMxjsMq/y2W08NqGSf ko8VAki8e7SgtUDR0d04qRtyDAj2QcGc0mkymWzcHUK7rk52R7Td8rVTIzVa+gee ujmSlS6eC+kQomI/qTLk28N6i0SUGhREAinIuLWZ4ugK3dAMTpf1bexh/TJqge8= =xhXt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH--