MicroBSD 0.6RC2 Released

RooTchO writes "Included in this release is the new Extended Security Features, Improved/Additional sysctl parameters. New binaries in this release are: pfradix, pfsyncd, aclctl, netacl, getfacl, setfacl and cgdconfig. We have added chrooted sshd, apache, bind. Special files to also see are /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/acl.conf and /etc/sshd/sshd_conf. And many new other goodies :)))"

Re:we dont need yaBSD.

[Anonymous Coward]

For some reason I don't think the authors of MicroBSD care about your opinion.

True enough, however I think that person was essentially on the money. These energies are probably better spent on enhancing one of the existing BSDs. As both a BSD user and contributor, I know I would prefer to see the forks of BSD stop and either stay as they are, or unify for mutual benefit... than wither on the vine as these separate projects.

But then part of me says that's just how it goes. People might have philosophical differences between themselves and the core developers of the existing BSDs, so they make their own fork to satisfy themselves... if not to serve people like them.

We can only hope that the BSDs learn how to do more code-sharing than they have been. And hope that the developers become more friendly and find new ways to encourage people to make code contributions.

I'm not suggesting that they should all homogenize, but they should try to offer the same features, perhaps presented and managed differently. Then people can pick the best subjective fit for them, and it doesn't matter which one they choose, because it's BSD, and they all more or less universally do the same exact thing...

That'd be the perfect-picture scenario, but alas.

I'm hedging my bets on FreeBSD, particularly with the 5.x branch. The only thing the FreeBSD project needs is more platforms, and some improvements to the ports system. (Yes, I believe that they have been leapfrogged by Gentoo's implementation of ports).

ATTN: Web Pages That Suck

[SecretAsianMan]

Well, my 15-second perusal of their site [microbsd.net] has thoroughly convinced me to steer clear of their project. I can figure out the "BSD" part of the name, but what does "micro" mean? Is it for embedded machines? Is it a floppy distro? Is it just a small distro? Maybe it is BSD for microcomputers, and they don't know about Free/Net/OpenBSD.

The first thing I see when I go to the FreeBSD [freebsd.org] website is this:

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.

In my 15-second perusal of the FreeBSD site, I get a good idea of what FreeBSD is. The only impression I get from the MicroBSD site is that they care more about blogwhoring than about writing any real software.

Frankly, branching a new distro for some petty reason (I'm going to assume that's what it is since it is so damn hard to find out) instead of contributing tools and patches to an existing BSD seems just a tad too reminiscent of that other large free OS community.