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OpenBSD Kicks Fucking Arse
Kintaro:
I tried it a couple of weeks back after the harddrive fell into its arse on my FC3 server, so I tried OpenBSD.
Nonetheless it kept rebooting on that, the mailinglisters just blamed the hardware, and then I found another disribution that I consider quite secure called Trustix Secure Linux which is quite good, in a lot of ways I would consider it on par with OpenBSD. That became the OS of the Kintaro Labs webserver.
However tonight, due to my usual insomnia I decided to get my dads office computer (he just uses my brothers computer anyway and it hasn't been powered on for 9857235734 years). It is a PII 233 with 128MB of ram and a 10gb Hard Drive, certainly something not of this generation. After breifly trying BeOS Max 3.2beta and watching a still loading screen for the installer for 10 minutes while talking to people online I decided against it.
I wasn't seriously going to deploy a BeOS system in my house anyway, because I have no use for one at all. However tonight I had a mission and it is a sucsess. I decided to set up a named server on an OpenBSD box.
There were some causes for using OpenBSD:
A) Paranoia: This leads to constant feeling of insecurity, being an insecure internet attention whore with no friends: which leads to a constant desire for good security. This is something I found OpenBSD has without having to configure a great deal of stuff to get it that way.
B) Stability: Despite my past random crash problem with it I have heard some very good things about it.
C) Small: Smaller then my penis in fact, and my penis is tiny!
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shoen# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 295M 33.5M 246M 12% /
/dev/wd0f 1006M 12.0K 956M 0% /home
/dev/wd0e 501M 4.0K 476M 0% /tmp
/dev/wd0g 6.3G 333M 5.7G 5% /usr
/dev/wd0d 1006M 6.9M 949M 1% /var
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The other thing I really liked about OpenBSD was how most the daemons run chroot. This is great because I just want a DNS server for my home network.
It took me less then 15 minutes to get a DNS server running on OpenBSD (ships with named). This is because I use webmin which is quite cool, I just want it for my home network...
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[x11@kintaro ~]$ host exeleven.home
exeleven.home has address 192.168.1.4
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As in names like that for my machines on the local network.
You can see the uptime and stuff here: http://uptimes.hostingwired.com/account.php?op=details&hid=13202
She's responsive as a rocket, secure as a fortress, and as stable as Mt Everest.
And the name comes from the Kintaro Legend...
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Development of "Sho-en"(Private land)：
By the political reformation in 645 (Taika-no-kaisin), centralized government was established. For example, private land was prohibited, that is, all the land was owned by the government and the people were all directly controlled by the government. The people were all equal, got the same size of land and paid tax.
Unfortunately, with this system, people did not get an incentive to work harder, therefore the system broke down quickly. As quickly as one hundred years after the reformation, the right to own private land started to be granted. The private land is called "Sho-en".
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muzzy:
chroot is yesterday's security feature! real men run their services under an isolated Xen virtual server ;)
Kintaro:
Yea, I plan on getting into Xen. I love the idea of it.
skyman8081:
Sys V and its variants (like a toolchain rhyming with canoe, and a kernel based on minix) are crap.
BSD is better, and doesn't have those annoying fanboy's that are on the GPL side of things.
Aloone_Jonez:
Lots of people seem to prefer BSD over Linux for some reason. I don't know Linux is more newb friendly but BSD is supposed to be a real UNIX.
A friend of mine keeps saying how much shit Linux sucks and people should just use BSD.
But just look at the Google results
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