tito via Dng said on Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:08:26 +0100 >On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 04:41:23 -0500 >Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > >> steph.tougard said on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 04:19:36 +0000 >> >> >> >My Devuan is behind an OpenBSD. The OpenBSD has no software >> >installed, it's a pure system as release by the OpenBSD team, the >> >code base is small, strongly audited by a very small and known >> >team. It can be considered safe, at least safer. Much safer than >> >any Debian based distribution. My network configuration is so safe >> >that I could safely store unencrypted Bitcoin private keys on an >> >unpatched Windows 98 without any risk if I wish. >> >> We've all built OpenBSD/pf firewall/routers. You didn't think of > > >.....and linux routers.
LOL, believe it or not, I haven't yet built a Linux router. My main point was just because OpenBSD plus pf makes an outstanding firewall doesn't mean that any BSD is necessarily the best OS to put *behind* that firewall. In late 2014, OpenBSD was my #1 potential escape route from systemd. Please remember, Devuan didn't exist as an installable system back then. I ultimately chose Void Linux instead, for two reasons: 1) Having to deal with Theo. 2) OpenBSD at the time had no hardware-accelerated Qemu or other VM. #1 was an annoyance, not a showstopper. #2 was a showstopper, because there will *always* be an application not available on your distro but available on another. I understand #2 has been fixed; that there's now an OpenBSD specific VM system that's hardware accelerated. But by this time I have six years with Void Linux, and it would take a lot to make me move. Linux and BSD are close cousins, so Linux and BSD users should be allies. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
