Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:21:10 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: "Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios" <gustavo@ifour.com.br>, "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: firewall stuff Message-ID: <04eb01c0cc43$b8b79cd0$0400a8c0@oracle> References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com>
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> You should've seen the earlier ones! Whoo, wheee!! They actually > had you calculating cylinders and sectors. That really took me > back. Hadn't done that since 1987 or so. Great! > Every OpenBSD install I've done gave weird complaints about unallocated sectors (immediately after disklabel) whereas the FreeBSD installs have invariably been very straightforward. Mind you the OpenBSD man pages are a huge improvement on the FreeBSD ones. Dunno what sort of person dreamed up their mailing list though .... I don't believe its humanly possible to create something so disorganized !!!!!!!! Thankfully the FreeBSD archives are quite well organized & easily searchable. > The reason I'd picked OpenBSD was indeed its focus on security. Whether > or not that is such a big deal in reality was a moot point. It made > for a great marketing USP ;). > Yeah ... thats what attracted me too, although general feedback on the subject indicates that its possibly overrated. Its not that my systems hold particularly valuable data, all I want to achieve is blocking as many evil types as possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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