The version control software also haven't changed: it's still CVS.
OpenBSD source tree turns 20 – version 5.8 of project preps for show time
OpenBSD's source tree just turned 20 years old. Today the project has 322,000 commits and contributions from more than 350 hackers since 1995. Its founder, Theo de Raadt, may be known for his cantankerous outbursts, but he's currently in a reflective and even – dare we say it – celebratory mood. de Raadt gave us a flavour of …
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Monday 19th October 2015 09:11 GMT Tomato42
Re: Lyrics
Use of comic sans is ironic, while use of CVS rots the mind.
But no wonder that they need to turn as many people away from their presentations as they can. They need to tell outright lies to show that they are relevant at all (e.g. LibreSSL being part of Arch - it's less of a part of it than PPAs are part of Ubuntu).
So, can we stop stroking Theo's ego?
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Monday 19th October 2015 09:00 GMT BinkyTheMagicPaperclip
Re: Is it a FOSS development leader requirement?
He's better than he used to be, but yes, OpenBSD's development is deliberately hostile - they do not want people who are inexperienced, or unprepared to keep to the project's ethos, including its cross platform nature.
Having said that, if someone puts in genuine effort, they're generally very helpful. It's the same with development and documentation - so long as you've read the docs first, people will help.
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Monday 19th October 2015 09:18 GMT Tomato42
Re: Is it a FOSS development leader requirement?
And that's what makes him "full of crap."
https://lwn.net/Articles/658231/
Linus does his outbursts to people he knows, Theo does that to everybody.
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Monday 19th October 2015 16:56 GMT asdf
value of cranky people
>Linus does his outbursts to people he knows, Theo does that to everybody.
Clueless poster aside in general what I want in my friends and what I want in the person driving development of the OS I use are two different things. Theo is responsible (with others granted) for just about the most secure modern general purpose open source OS (as well as many valuable side projects like OpenSSH) out there. Personality flaws aside that makes him more valuable to me than billions of other nicer people on this planet.
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Monday 19th October 2015 18:24 GMT chasil
HardenedBSD
I've never tried this distribution, but they do claim to have a vastly superior ASLR implementation.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/15/07/25/2047210/hardenedbsd-completes-strong-aslr-implementation
http://hup.hu/node/140322
https://aboutthebsds.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/openbsds-aslr-weak-not-very-random-and-not-truly-aslr/
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Monday 19th October 2015 21:22 GMT asdf
Re: HardenedBSD
Thus queue up the age old (in IT dog years) argument that ASLR is simply a bandaid for incorrect code that is fairly easily defeated by a determined adversary. Theo and OpenBSD's philosophy tends to be to try to get your code correct and well audited in the first place (and where they spend their energy) because that is your best defense rather than trying to close the barn door after (especially in regards to grsecurity and SELinux). They were one of the first OS to offer ASLR but even if their implementation is weaker my guess is you are still safer with the OpenBSD code base (especially the base system) and weaker ASLR than you are with strong ASLR bolted on top of the FreeBSD code base.
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