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"Why I use OpenBSD" 5

Posted by Nik from the no-purty-icons dept.
rho writes "Stephan Somogyi at MacWEEK trumpets everybody's favorite security-concious *nix OpenBSD with an article telling why he likes it. Pretty plain jane, but introduces OpenBSD to a new audience (i.e. Mac users)."
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  • Just checked, NetBSD still doesn't support the Performa x200 series. (the "rotten" apples).

    Pity, I bought two for a good bottle of wine :-)

    Anyway, back to Linux then. At least Mklinux (www.mklinux.org) seems to have working beta versions of a kernel for these machines.
  • How can "OpenBSD rules" possibly be off-topic? It's entirely on-topic for this story, and since this *is* an OpenBSD story, it can't even be called a flamebait (it insults no one else, and certainly not the OpenBSD users).

  • ...and not the best-written piece I've seen on macweek, but reasonable enough. And of course it's another entertaining snub of MacOS (Hey Apple, I'm using OpenBSD because it doesn't suck! Nyah nyah!)

    I really would have liked to have seen the article say something about the code review OpenBSD experiences. Surely someone can set this guy straight...

  • I run NetBSD on my SE30. I don't know why you can't. I prefer FreeBSD, but I like this little toaster as a monitoring station.

  • I'd love to have Open's level of security, but it won't run on my older Mac clone (PowerBase 240) and its 3rd party USB card. Guess I'll try NetBSD [netbsd.org] instead. Net runs on pretty much anything made after the last Toaster Mac [apple.com].

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