[nflug] FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 is now available

[Robert Meyer]

Go ahead and ask.  There are a lot of people on this list that combined have experience with most versions of Unix that have ever existed (Hi, guys... you know who you are :-).  Also, a lot of Unix questions tend to cross over between Linux and the various Unix flavors.

----- Original Message ----
From: eric <eric at bootz.us>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 is now available

:) I seriously fool around.

Is there a nf"U"ug.org or would it be ok to ask a couple of openBSD
questions here?

Ken Smith wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:32 -0500, eric wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm fooling around with openBSD from what I read they focus more on
>>security, what do you think? I just want to set it up to run ssh and
>>thats it, do you think I chose well? 
>>    
>>
>
>If all you're concerned with is SSH then virtually anything would be
>fine.  As someone else pointed out the same set of folks who produce
>OpenBSD produce OpenSSH but unless you want/need to follow the bleeding
>edge of OpenSSH development what you get in any of the released
>operating systems (including OpenBSD) will be more or less the same.
>Fixes to what's considered the "stable" variant of OpenSSH find their
>way into pretty much everyone's OS fairly quickly.
>
>Security is definitely one of the (if not the) major focuses of OpenBSD.
>That's not to say that the other systems are insecure though.  They all
>have various strengths and weaknesses but you usually need to be poking
>at more than just "basic security" to start running into those sorts of
>things.  If you're just "playing around" they're all fine. :-)
>
>  
>

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