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OpenBSD?

Comment comment by Anonymous on 29 March 2007

greetings,

while not the most popular desktop os, OpenBSD has some usage as a server os.

would it be possible for you to add this system to your selection of tested os'es?

bengt

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RE: OpenBSD? by VnutZ :: NR8

I'll be honest, I forgot OpenBSD even existed. I had been trying to get NetBSD to install on the test machine, but every installation absolutely refused to recognize any of the network cards installed. As the point of the test was "what will the box do without special configurations", NetBSD was omitted.

In a few days, I'll see if OpenBSD will install inside a VM decently (as the test machine is now in use for other purposes). If that works, the scanning machine hasn't updated its Nessus plugins yet so it's still configured for Dec 31, 2006 vulnerabilities which is what every other OS was tested against.

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RE: OpenBSD? by Anonymous :: NR0

Me too.. OpenBSD rocks in security concerns! Please test it.

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OpenBSD Partitioning Scheme by VnutZ :: NR8

I'm actually too busy at the moment to go reading through a lot of FAQs and tutorials. I went to do a quick, "stock" install of OpenBSD over the weekend and ran into some issues. One, unless you pay for the media, you must do an installation over the network. I would actually be interested in using ethereal (or is it called WireShark now?) to see how it communicates with the server. But, before that stage was ever reached, the system was prompting for Disk Labeling using the typical cryptic commands without naming them what most other distributions use. Ultimately, the system was refusing to partition my test computer's drive - so what is the "easy solution" to just get past that part?

So is OpenBSD supposedly the "killer" to NetBSD now that their project went defunct?

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