Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-20 Thread Dan Farrell
I'd like to correct the record here, because you're Misrepresenting with a capital "M": Comixwall shut down beacuse Soner Tari, the guy who put it all together, got butt-hurt after unsuccessfully trying to advertise his project on this mailing list. Theo's apparent tough

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 06:59:32AM -0700, français wrote: > I always find it amusing how OpenBSD is "audited", yet there's not one audit > report on the OpenBSD website. The closest answer I've been able to find on > the mailing list is to review all of the CVS commit logs. Yeah, that's not > opaqu

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread Denis Fondras
> Both, however, ended up shutting down after Theo and various users told them > that their projects were worthless and that they weren't contributing to > OpenBSD. > I guess they didn't strongly believe in their added value if they cancelled the project after someone told them it was not worth.

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread Delan Azabani
You only need a great deal of memory if you wish to use deduplication, which is an optional ZFS feature that some people consider worth the cost. While the complexity and licensing of ZFS make it inappropriate for inclusion in OpenBSD, at least in the near future, let's not throw around insults as

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread patric conant
owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of > Peter N. M. Hansteen > Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 6:51 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects > GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to &g

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread Kevin Gerrard
ney -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter N. M. Hansteen Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 6:51 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthles

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
he bigger problem with OpenBSD is it's community. In the FreeBSD world, you have PC-BSD and pfsense, both of which are generally welcomed by the community. With OpenBSD, there were two sister projects that tried to target a similar audience: GnoBSD and Comixwall. Comixwall was the equivalent of pf

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-17 Thread Christoph R. Murauer
> have PC-BSD and pfsense, both of which are generally welcomed by the > community. With OpenBSD, there were two sister projects that tried to > target > a similar audience: GnoBSD and Comixwall. Comixwall was the equivalent of > pfsense for easy router/firewall management and GnoBSD was

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-17 Thread Jorge Castillo
Look if you don't want to use OpenBSD don't use OpenBSD. If you are so easily swayed over just because someone said something then it's your fault, don't blame others. I like OpenBSD and I will keep using it as long as there are developers that keep it going. No matter what anyone tells me I can't

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-17 Thread frcc
commit logs. Yeah, that's not > opaque in the slightest... > > The bigger problem with OpenBSD is it's community. In the FreeBSD world, you > have PC-BSD and pfsense, both of which are generally welcomed by the > community. With OpenBSD, there were two sister projects that trie

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-17 Thread Johan Petersson
with OpenBSD is it's community. In the FreeBSD world, > you > have PC-BSD and pfsense, both of which are generally welcomed by the > community. With OpenBSD, there were two sister projects that tried to > target > a similar audience: GnoBSD and Comixwall. Comixwall was the equivalent

Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-17 Thread français
blem with OpenBSD is it's community. In the FreeBSD world, you have PC-BSD and pfsense, both of which are generally welcomed by the community. With OpenBSD, there were two sister projects that tried to target a similar audience: GnoBSD and Comixwall. Comixwall was the equivalent of pfsense for e

Re: Comixwall

2011-02-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
"R0me0 ***" writes: > Someone use comixwall ? it's been more than a year since that project was announced 'terminated', so i wouldn't be overly optimistic about finding other users (see http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126037728930452&w=2 and referenc

Comixwall

2011-02-24 Thread R0me0 ***
Hello there, Someone use comixwall ? Please contact me Regards,

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-14 Thread Mentesan
Yes, I think that's the point. It's just so sad that ComixWall will be terminated, in fact I doesn't use it, but it's a very nice thing what Soner Tari have achieved. It really could be an excellent port to the system, and being a port certainly would be more useful to OpenB

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread Bret S. Lambert
009 at 03:12:34PM -0200, dark knight neo wrote: > > Yes .. > > You have all the reason . > > > > I ask . > > > > THEO, > > > > Which the reason for not announce the Comixwall in the OpenBSD misc list ? > > I would like to understand. > > &

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
Because it doesn't fucking belong there. How hard is that to get through your skull? Now go back to Norway. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:12:34PM -0200, dark knight neo wrote: > Yes .. > You have all the reason . > > I ask . > > THEO, > > Which the reason for not

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:12:34PM -0200, dark knight neo wrote: > Yes .. > You have all the reason . Seriously, STFU. Take it offlist with individuals if you still have questions. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread dark knight neo
Yes .. You have all the reason . I ask . THEO, Which the reason for not announce the Comixwall in the OpenBSD misc list ? I would like to understand. My best regards 2009/12/12 FRLinux > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, dark knight neo > wrote: > > Since when announ

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread FRLinux
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, dark knight neo wrote: > Since when announcing is spam ? > Being that the Comixwall is OpenBSD > Why Theo don't announcing or put a link in the OpenBSD website to Comixwall > website ? > Why no think in the collective one ? Regardless of

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-12 Thread dark knight neo
Since when announcing is spam ? Being that the Comixwall is OpenBSD Why Theo don't announcing or put a link in the OpenBSD website to Comixwall website ? Why no think in the collective one ? 2009/12/12 J Sisson > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, wrote: > > > This isn't

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread J Sisson
Theo said stop it, and the OP challenged Theo's decision. Theo had every right to be pissed. I'm not disagreeing there. 2) money. I was responding to a post about the OpenBSD team losing CD sales due to ComixWall. I fail to see how that doesn't concern money.

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread acamari
J Sisson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Eric Furman wrote: > > > It is simple. ComixWall was a *Distribution*. > > It directly competes with OpenBSD. > > People could obtain ComixWall directly from his web site. > > This means *less* CD sales. >

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread J Sisson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Eric Furman wrote: > It is simple. ComixWall was a *Distribution*. > It directly competes with OpenBSD. > People could obtain ComixWall directly from his web site. > This means *less* CD sales. > CD sales are the main source of income for OpenB

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bennett
Eric Furman wrote: It is simple. ComixWall was a *Distribution*. It directly competes with OpenBSD. People could obtain ComixWall directly from his web site. This means *less* CD sales. CD sales are the main source of income for OpenBSD. Therefore ComixWall *hurts* OpenBSD. Theo's hostili

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Eric Furman
he security > And OpenBSD by yourself already make this. > Comixwall is only one frontend wrote in php to control some services such > as > Dansguardian . > But no lost the focus of the security > To me , it's all a big BULLSHIT > Comixwall don't compete with OpenBSD

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread dark knight neo
I think the follow about this: The OpenBSD project must and need to keep simple . The more important is not lost the focus of the security And OpenBSD by yourself already make this. Comixwall is only one frontend wrote in php to control some services such as Dansguardian . But no lost the focus

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Eric Furman
It is simple. ComixWall was a *Distribution*. It directly competes with OpenBSD. People could obtain ComixWall directly from his web site. This means *less* CD sales. CD sales are the main source of income for OpenBSD. Therefore ComixWall *hurts* OpenBSD. Theo's hostility is compl

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Bayard Bell
wherever it may sit. What's wrong with posting OpenBSD-related 'adverts', and in this special case with ComixWall which is totally free ? Well, if the principle is that this list is to build and support community around OpenBSD, it's a question about what's considered ap

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Janne Johansson
Bayard Bell wrote: This is levelling down a distinction: there's spam that's definitely spam [evil cut] Conversely, with time spent talking ... time we wont get back, and that wont further either project. Net gain for everyone? 0.

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Bayard Bell
nically doesn't mean members shouldn't intervene against a different class of posting. What's wrong with posting OpenBSD-related 'adverts', and in this special case with ComixWall which is totally free ? Well, if the principle is that this list is to build and support co

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Mentesan
Its so sad... Because of a lack of respect and a little humility all this shit is taking place. To make a mistake is human, to forgive is divine. Respect and honor for who deserve it. My best regards Fabio Almeida

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:19:38AM +0100, P-O Yliniemi wrote: > Jacob Meuser skrev 2009-12-10 16:32: > >On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:21:34PM +, Michal wrote: > >>So what...someone was wrong > >what was wrong here was Soner Tari posting private emails to a public > >mailing lists. > > > There are

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread P-O Yliniemi
=?utf-8?q?[blog_deco_et_design]_nouveaut=c3=a9s_my-deco-shop_-_m...@openbsd.org?= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:30:07 +0100 What's wrong with posting OpenBSD-related 'adverts', and in this special case with ComixWall which is totally free ? I agree with a lot of the other posts t

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM, spamtester spamtester wrote: > if you can't see that users come in many shapes and forms you are seriously > *wrong*. --- I think the point is that while users are very different, we should learn how things happen here and respect that by adjusting our behavio

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:21:34PM +, Michal wrote: > So what...someone was wrong what was wrong here was Soner Tari posting private emails to a public mailing lists. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread FRLinux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, spamtester spamtester wrote: > Seriously, theo wtf ? > Openbsd slow "masterbating monkies", Always late to the security party (how > many years late for PIE ? etc.) nice troll

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread spamtester spamtester
Seriously, theo wtf ? Here is a packaged version of openbsd which doesn't ask for donations providing something which users clearly want. if you can't see that users come in many shapes and forms you are seriously *wrong*. I for one would suggest that comixwall moves to freebsd, due to

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Michal
So what...someone was wrong, someone's train of thought was wrong...so what? Someone posts something and it's the wrong place...ok, say this isn't the place and move on. If this person though they where helping and people think they are not...well they have a different opinion but really they haven

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
Soner Tari writes: > Due to unexpected reaction from the leader of the OpenBSD project > (please read below), I am terminating the ComixWall project. Do you cut yourself when somebody yells at you just to show them? >>> I will feel stupid continuing with this project whil

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 9 Dec 2009 um 19:01 schrieb Christopher Zimmermann: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 Jason Dixon wrote: How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall help OpenBSD? It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the official purpose of the advocasy mailing list. So I think that

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > > How does abstraction of arguably the cleanest, easiest to > > learn UNIX, help OpenBSD? > > It helps in promoting OpenBSD. Promoting OpenBSD will make > OpenBSD more widely known. This will attract more possible > develo

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:43:59 +0100 Martin Schr__der wrote: > 2009/12/9 Christopher Zimmermann : > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > >> How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall > >> help OpenBSD? > > >

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
nBSD more widely known. This will attract more possible > > developers. They will write code for OpenBSD. This will help > > OpenBSD. > > No. It helps promoting ComixWall and it will attract people to > ComixWall and those people will contribute to ComixWall. See there Michiel ..

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
> So .. in the end, the fact that ComixWall uses OpenBSD as it's > fundation, _does_ help promote OpenBSD use and expand it's user > base Bullshit. Please get this off our lists.

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/12/9 Christopher Zimmermann : > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 > Jason Dixon wrote: > >> How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall >> help OpenBSD? > > It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the official > purpose of the advocasy mailing

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread J Sisson
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > If this is true, it's a pity. Then comixwall just died. > > Theo told Soner to cease. Soner came back with "if you don't tell me you were just joking, I'm going to terminate the Comixwall project".

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > It helps in promoting OpenBSD. Promoting OpenBSD will make > OpenBSD more widely known. This will attract more possible > developers. They will write code for OpenBSD. This will help > OpenBSD. If OpenBSD is hard to use, people shoul

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Michiel van Baak
OpenBSD. This will help > OpenBSD. No. It helps promoting ComixWall and it will attract people to ComixWall and those people will contribute to ComixWall. While rereading that I see 'ComixWall' three times, and OpenBSD 0 times. > > > > I know I just added some additiona

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 5:01:05 pm Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall > > help OpenBSD? > > It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the officia

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 Jason Dixon wrote: > How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall > help OpenBSD? It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the official purpose of the advocasy mailing list. So I think that announcements of ComixWall releases could go in

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Ted Unangst
misc list, not the ports list. They are different. And if you looked at those mails, you would see that they had ports attached, not links to openbsd distributions including the port. > Anyway, comixwall is not a part of the "official" ports > tree. So the release announcements

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Jason Dixon
dead. So the > decision to post the announcement of ComixWall to the misc > list does not seem too stupid to me. ComixWall != OpenBSD > > Do we see release announcements on our lists for Firefox? > > comixwall is developed to make using OpenBSD easier. It's How does

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:37:01 -0700 Bob Beck wrote: > > COMIXWALL isn't a fork, its just a preinstalled > > configuration panel for OpenBSD and a collection of > > nice utilities. > > > So it belongs as a a port then. Not as a "distibution" - > and

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread J Sisson
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bob Beck wrote: > the point is simple: > > * Release Announcements For things that are not OpenBSD do not belong > on OpenBSD lists * > In both quoted responses Theo specifically mentioned the lists and for the OP to quit posting ads. I thought the message was q

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Jussi Peltola
This is just silly. If you make a firewall distribution to "promote OpenBSD" instead of making a firewall distribution, your source of motivation is wrong. OpenBSD is free software. You are completely free to use it as a basis for your firewall distribution. The project, on the other hand, does n

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Bob Beck
> COMIXWALL isn't a fork, its just a preinstalled configuration panel > for OpenBSD and a collection of nice utilities. > > And considering (and no offence here) the COMIXWALL developers are > enthusiasts not paid professional developers. > So where's the harm asking

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Ross Cameron
This is a VERY sad day :( Personally I managed to convert quite a few people to using OpenBSD by coaxing an interest via COMIXWALL. A grand pity and unfortunately if I were you I'd probably have done the same :( OpenBSD is possibly the cleanest most delightful OS to work on and most defin

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Ross Cameron
How > exactly does this help the _OpenBSD_project_? COMIXWALL isn't a fork, its just a preinstalled configuration panel for OpenBSD and a collection of nice utilities. And considering (and no offence here) the COMIXWALL developers are enthusiasts not paid professional developers. S

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:31:05PM +0200, Soner Tari wrote: > Due to unexpected reaction from the leader of the OpenBSD project > (please read below), I am terminating the ComixWall project. I will keep > the project server running until the end of this month. I might > resurrect th

ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Soner Tari
Due to unexpected reaction from the leader of the OpenBSD project (please read below), I am terminating the ComixWall project. I will keep the project server running until the end of this month. I might resurrect the project in the future with another host OS perhaps. I am going to unsubscribe

ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009

2009-12-08 Thread Soner Tari
I am pleased to announce the release of ComixWall 4.6. This is the 7th public release of ComixWall ISG. Please go to http://comixwall.org to download the installation CD image, via bittorrent. ComixWall is still the only fully FOSS and freely available UTM firewall running on OpenBSD. You can use

Re: Translators needed for upcoming ComixWall 4.6

2009-11-13 Thread Soner Tari
> Po files to be translated can be downloaded at this link: > http://comixwall.org/dmdocuments/translations/ Now, you can find the following files at the same place: template.html: Web filter denied page template_nobypass.html: Web filter denied page without bypass link fancydmtemplate.html: WF d

Translators needed for upcoming ComixWall 4.6

2009-11-11 Thread Soner Tari
I am planning to release ComixWall 4.6 in December. (Please see further below for a summary of upcoming release announcement.) I am happy to announce that I have frozen the web user interface strings as one of the final few stages of the release process. The ComixWall ISG project needs your help

Re: comixwall pf will not work

2008-07-07 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 07 July 2008 09:50:07 Diana Eichert wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Rainel Roflo wrote: > > Good day I have successfully installed comixwall 4.2 on my machine but > > its default pf rules wil l not allow me to connect to internet but if > > I'm going to disab

Re: comixwall pf will not work

2008-07-07 Thread Diana Eichert
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Rainel Roflo wrote: Good day I have successfully installed comixwall 4.2 on my machine but its default pf rules wil l not allow me to connect to internet but if I'm going to disable it I can connect to the internet, here is my pf.conf after installing comixwall. This

comixwall pf will not work

2008-07-07 Thread Rainel Roflo
Good day I have successfully installed comixwall 4.2 on my machine but its default pf rules wil l not allow me to connect to internet but if I'm going to disable it I can connect to the internet, here is my pf.conf after installing comixwall. This is my first time installing OpenBSD and usi

ComixWall 4.2 released

2008-01-06 Thread Soner Tari
I am pleased to announce that ComixWall ISG 4.2 has been released. ComixWall is an Internet Security Gateway (ISG): FOSS UTM firewall running on OpenBSD, with a user-friendly web interface for administration and monitoring. ComixWall is unique, first of its kind in many ways. Highlights of this