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From: downsj@threadway.teeny.org (Jason Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD DOSEMU -- questions from a prospective NetBSD user
Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:43:15 GMT
Organization: teeny.org: Free Software for a Free Internet
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In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.960623232511.4973A-100000@aspen.plexus.com>,
	Scott Reynolds writes:
>On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Jason Downs wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.OSF.3.93.960621085642.13645B-100000@gonzo.wolfenet.com>,
>> 	"Aron T. Roberts" writes:
>> >Could you possibly go into more detail about these 20 security holes??
>> >
>> >I am thinking of using NetBSD in a production environment and this is an
>> >important issue.
>> 
>> Hmm, OpenBSD doesn't seem any less stable or less suited to a production
>> environment then NetBSD is.
>
>The answer to the question is not "run OpenBSD" instead.  That's a 
>very childish attitude, especially since OpenBSD wouldn't exist were it 
>not for the hard work of a _lot_ of NetBSD contributors.

What, are you on drugs?  OpenBSD _clearly_ states that it is based on
NetBSD.  There is no lack of credit to the NetBSD developers in the
commit messages, web pages, etc.  (Which isn't always conversely true of
NetBSD.)  I should also point out that parts of OpenBSD are as much due to 
FreeBSD or Lites as they are to NetBSD, and, of course, there's a lot of new 
code.

That's like someone pointing out that NetBSD wouldn't exist without the CSRG,
and calling NetBSD childish for having based their system on one from CSRG.

The originial 'question' was how to run a 'more secure' system, to which the 
answer is 'run OpenBSD instead'.  OpenBSD takes security far, far more
seriously then just about any other OS in existance; that's not random
advertising either, it's a very serious statement of fact.

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