From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 15:22:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E7E37B423 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-142-144.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.144]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA21064; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:20:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <04eb01c0cc43$b8b79cd0$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Roelof Osinga" Cc: "Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios" , "Josh Paetzel" , References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com> Subject: Re: firewall stuff Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:21:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You should've seen the earlier ones! Whoo, wheee!! They actually > had you calculating cylinders and sectors. That really took me > back. Hadn't done that since 1987 or so. Great! > Every OpenBSD install I've done gave weird complaints about unallocated sectors (immediately after disklabel) whereas the FreeBSD installs have invariably been very straightforward. Mind you the OpenBSD man pages are a huge improvement on the FreeBSD ones. Dunno what sort of person dreamed up their mailing list though .... I don't believe its humanly possible to create something so disorganized !!!!!!!! Thankfully the FreeBSD archives are quite well organized & easily searchable. > The reason I'd picked OpenBSD was indeed its focus on security. Whether > or not that is such a big deal in reality was a moot point. It made > for a great marketing USP ;). > Yeah ... thats what attracted me too, although general feedback on the subject indicates that its possibly overrated. Its not that my systems hold particularly valuable data, all I want to achieve is blocking as many evil types as possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message