On April 30, 2015 1:27:35 PM GMT+01:00, Apple Apple <djjdjdjdjdjdj...@gmail.com> wrote: >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.
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