Hello! I'm no official OpenBSD developper, it's just my impressions.
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:16:14PM +0200, Sascha Retzki wrote: >Hello folks, >1.) Do you plan to distribute several MTAs, like NetBSD currently does? Or >do you already (first check said no, but maybe I missed something)? I don't think so. But alternative MTAs are easy to install thanks to mailwrapper and /usr/ports/mail/* (or the packages, of course). For example, I run exim here. >2.) Do you plan to distribute PAM in base? I guess not even over Theo's dead body. OpenBSD has the BSD Authentication system, see: auth_approval, auth_cat, auth_checknologin, auth_mkvalue, auth_userchallenge, auth_usercheck, auth_userokay, auth_userresponse, auth_verify (3) - simplified interface to the BSD Authentication system auth_open, auth_call, auth_challenge, auth_check_change, auth_check_expire, auth_clean, auth_close, auth_clrenv, auth_clroption, auth_clroptions, auth_getitem, auth_getpwd, auth_getstate, auth_getvalue, auth_set_va_list, auth_setdata, auth_setenv, auth_setitem, auth_setoption, auth_setpwd, auth_setstate (3) - interface to the BSD Authentication system login_...(8). >3.) Did anybody look close enough on TenDRA yet? I'd like to know how much >GNUism is in OpenBSDs base, building mechanism, so basicly it adds up to: >How long do we/you have to wait till TenDRA can be used? It was quite long ago when I tried out tcc, and it could compile *some* programs of /usr/src/usr.bin fine. I guess it has at least not become worse, but it doesn't look like it's going to be used officially soon, if at all. >3.2.) Even if the compiler/debugger/linker stuff runs on BSDLed code from >the TenDRA people, do you roughly know how much software in base is GPL/GNU, >and how much of that must be there? /usr/src/gnu answers that (not all of that is specifically GPL, some is other licenses with similar spirit, e.g. sendmail, perl). >4.) I saw lkm-stuff in your tree, do you want the same situation as linux has, >like that "too much" is modulized, or do you want that API for situations >where kernel mods are the only bearable solution? My impression is that it's just taken along from 4.4BSD, seems OpenBSD usually uses a monolithic kernel, usually GENERIC. >5.) What do you think about devfs? Will it be there in the near or far >future? I don't have the impression. >6.) Do you guys like X11R6? Would you remove it if $somebody comes up with >some basic window-manager-alike basing on something simple like svgalibs? >Or, rather, would you distribute that in base, too? It wouldn't be an implementation of X11R6, so no substitute. >I hope I did not forget too much, thanks for reading and possibly >asking me stuff or answering >Sascha Retzki Kind regards, Hannah.
