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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!satisfy.kiae.su!carrier.kiev.ua!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: OpenBSD?? What's this? (was: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: usenet@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (ElVisti USENET) Organization: Electronni Visti InformAgency (ElVisti) Message-ID: <DJ65Gt.FwD@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu> <49riq5$bfh@dworkin.wustl.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 14:26:52 GMT Lines: 36 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10611 comp.unix.advocacy:12276 comp.unix.misc:20139 [... linux groups removed from the newsgroups list ...] Hello Chuck Cranor (chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu); quoting you from comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc <49riq5$bfh@dworkin.wustl.edu> : : In article <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu>, : Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: : >If a BSD user group member is complaining about lack of access, can you : >imagine a common joe like you or I getting access to it? : With OpenBSD one can simply set the CVSROOT enviornment variable : to "anoncvs@anoncvs.openbsd.org:/cvs" and get read access to the : OpenBSD cvs tree -- no special account required. [assuming you : have IP access and a recent version of cvs installed (e.g. 1.6)] : A "common joe" should be happy with that? I've never hear about OpenBSD before. Please someone enlighten me what's it? What are the project goals? What is current state of it? : FreeBSD's sup and CTM service sound pretty good too (pretty quick : sup scan cycle). : cheers, : Chuck : -- : Chuck Cranor, Graduate Student : Computer and Communications Research Center : Washington University, St. Louis MO USA : E-Mail: chuck@maria.wustl.edu / cranor@udel.edu -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error.