I am not particularly enlightened but I was under the impression that people do not use BSD for a reason.
It's 2015 and FreeBSD is still lacking basic security mechanisms such as ASLR. It also seems to me that the community's ideological licencing crusade is holding the entire project back. They condemn anything GPL and will substitute inferior tools instead, I.e. ksh instead of bash, virtual box instead of xen etc. As a project they seem to spend most of their time rewriting GPL projects just to slap a BSD licence on it (bhyve or whatever they call it for example) which doesn't really help anyone. It's like Canonical dicking around with Unity and Mir. Complete waste of everyone's time. OpenBSD is also a highly emotionally charged community. They completely turn their backs on things like virtualization and mandatory access controls. They spend all their time auditing the base system but as soon as you install a buggy or untrusted application then you're on your own. I don't find this approach very helpful in the real world. Would anyone who knows more care to address these points and correct me where I may be wrong? I like the idea of diversifying the Tor infrastructure, defence in depth and all that but I feel like it would be nice to also have some clear arguments for why another OS should be adopted - not just it exists and it's not Linux. > an idea: maybe talk to forums.freebsd.org / www.freebsdforums.org > operators about making their sites available also to tor users as well? This would be immensely helpful and appreciated. There is no reason to block even read only access to the forums. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
