Thank you all for the replies. I might do a lecture on my own, presenting OpenBSD.
If I where to do that it, as a subsection, would be cool to give references to other institutions that are using OpenBSD and why they are using it. Why one would use OpenBSD, over eg. GNU/Linux. Now I would site preemptive security, code correctness, it's easy to use; enable daemons through rc.conf, pf, openssh, possibility for zfs in kernel?, good documentation, jailing of daemons. It would also be cool to highlight any specific snazzy functionality. Something that would get (MSc/geeky) people to think. "ooh, that's cool" particular in relation to networking. eg. I think the scrubbing of packets in PF is kinda cool, pftop, see the interruptcounter for the nic and serial console. :P Maybe something related to cryptography, or general network gear(routers, switches) , or any new cool feature in PF or something that's expensive with Cisco but cheap and good with *BSD. ipsec?, VoIP? cool feature in OpenSSH. .tsl On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Corey <clinge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/13/2010 02:06 AM, TS Lura wrote: > >> I feel it's game over, at this point. But maybe you guys have some >> suggestion about good arguments that might persuade my professor? >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> TSLura. >> > You can look at it this way: you will have a leg up on your classmates > because you have done enough self-study to be at least aware of BSD, aand > OpenBSD in particular. They, on the other hand (well, some of them at > least), will equate Unix/Open Source with Linux.
