[nflug] FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 is now available
eric
eric at bootz.us
Wed Nov 29 14:12:11 EST 2006
:) 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:
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>>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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