It has been 15 years or so I had no degree, so no job One kind soul called me to be An apprentice without salary
Windows 2000 & Zonealarm Was the firewall where I was Once in 3 months required a reinstall Because it became the cracker's ball An apprentice not knowing too much About networking far less securing Began to google for a Linux firewall But came across PF firewall Went around asking for help To install OpenBSD in firm All I got from the Linux Gurus Was discouragement, said it 's tough Started reading the Install doc Took a month to understand 'slice' Partitions inside partition Slowly things began to click I learned things on 3.4 Had a firewall by 3.5 :-) ( http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20041013190823 ) Then there was no newbies list misc@ that time was a little tough ;-) The book would cost my 2 salaries So there was no hope but misc@ Seeing my misery to comprehend Two books J C Roberts sent Soon I had a secure desktop in hand( https://goo.gl/142mRd ) And I loved it with all of my heart Made my firm purchase CDs Soon our backups were too in it.( http://goo.gl/ig2cRc, http://goo.gl/jExnCY ) Now there is no looking back Even EU said that they too back ( http://goo.gl/pNohhq ) Twenty years is no small thing But Theo should not be relaxing ;-) Thank you very much Theo and all developers. I learned a lot about security just by reading through the misc mails and googling things I didn't understand. And got kicked out from many free software mailinglists for advocating OpenBSD and the BSD licence ;-) On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > OpenBSD's source tree just turned 20 years old. > > I recall the import taking about 3 hours on an EISA-bus 486 with two > ESDI drives. There was an import attempt a few days earlier, but it > failed due to insufficient space. It took some time to repartition > the machine. > > It wasn't terribly long before David Miller, Chuck Cranor and Niklas > Hallqvist were commiting... then more people showed up. > > The first developments were improvements to 32-bit sparc. > > Chuck and I also worked on setting up the first 'anoncvs' to make sure > noone was ever cut out from 'the language of diffs' again. I guess > that was the precursor for the github concept these days :-). People > forget, but even FSF was a walled garden at the time -- throwing tar > files with vague logs over the wall every couple months. > > I was lucky to have one of the few 64Kbit ISDN links in town, > otherwise this would not have happened. My desktop was a Sparcstation > 10; the third machine I had was a very slow 386. > > The project is now at: > > ~322,000 commits > ~44 commits/day average > ~356 hackers through the years > > -- > > On this day, is my pleasure to give you a song written for the > release by Todd Miller. > > http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#58a > > It was twenty years ago you see > Theo opened a cvs tree > Made commits to many a file > Joined by others in a very short while > > Take a moment to view > The source of all this code > The openbsd cvs repo... > > We're the openssh repository > We hope you will enjoy the code > The openntpd repository > But that's not all that's here oh no... > The mandoc 'pository, smtpd 'tory > The libressl repo too > > It's wonderful to see the code > Re-used far and wide > The license is so liberal > We'd love for you to code with us > We'd love for you to code... > > I don't really want to have to go > But it's hackathon time and so > The coder will commit the code > That he wants all of you to load > > So let me introduce to you the one and only Puffy Fish > And the openbsd cvs repo... > > B... S... D... > > -- > > (The 5.8 release will be announced and released in a few hours.)
