Tuesday, August 5, 2008
News Jay Does Want to Hear
Linus Torvalds has some rather harsh words for OpenBSD devs, as well as for the security community as a whole. The words are not exactly SFW, but full of win nonetheless. Unfortunately, he's just going to have to live with the fact that security will always be a sexier computing topic than regular old bug stomping.
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Well, OpenBSD devs must be doing something right if it's pretty much universally acknowledged that they make the most secure OS in existence. I think Linus has just been hitting the smoak a little too hard.
I can also make the most secure OS ever, OpenBSD had the world's smallest path and thus you can't run commands anywhere. Whoooooopppdee doodle doo.
WTF are you talking about? I'm pretty sure the path is not what makes OpenBSD so secure. According to Wikipedia, the main features have to do with changes in some C libraries to make them safer, built-in protection against buffer overflows, enhanced cryptography support, and other modifications I don't understand that are not nearly as simplistic as a conservative path definition. I think it's all stuff that most people wouldn't need but that the FBI and NSA would find useful. It's definitely a specialty OS, and I think Linus' criticism is overblown (pun intended -- their mascot is a puffer fish).
guys, get back on topic. we're talking about bating monkeys here.
to further derail:
RSF:Your OS is a POS
It's basically FYAD style over OS and tech stuff. I like "best OS to use ironically" and "java sucks a big bag of dicks."
Holy crap that's hilarious. It amuses me that the busiest thread is "post itt every time vi/vim is a worthless piece of trash editor for faggots" -- what is this, 1991? (Wow, I feel like Brian for saying that.)
I know that isn't the core of OpenBSD, but I remember when I first installed it, the next command was always to edit the path so I could fucking execute programs.
...which takes about two seconds in Bash: (export PATH=$PATH:/new/path). I'm impressed that you tried to install it, though. I'm not man enough to attempt it, let alone make X work with it. The *BSD partitioning (slicing?) system alone freaks me out and makes me not want to mess with it (like, wtf is /dev/a1s3d, and which of my Linux partitions is that?). Plus, it has to be on a primary partition, which greatly reduces its flexibility. Totally not worth it.
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