On 2019-08-28 07:47, Raul Miller wrote:
I would fix the issue, or use something else to get that done or
abandon that project.
(I am not sure why you would imagine that using OpenBSD implies not
using other operating systems. It's *because* I use other operating
systems that I like using OpenBSD.)
Thanks,
So many good points brought up.
Along with all that has been mentioned, I use OpenBSD because there are
no surprises when you install a service. The service is not started
until you start it. Even if it started inadvertently, the config will
have 'sane' defaults and not get you breached.
My OpenBSD start:
I was running Untangle (based on Debian Linux) back in 2009 while
looking for a PC-based router of some sort. I read Dru Lavigne's 'BSD
Hacks' and found some things that I wanted my router to do using OpenBSD
that Linux couldn't do (at least without recompiling the kernel). After
that I was onto OpenBSD 4.6 with some early 'bump in the wire' devices
in front of my Linux firewalls. I also read Michael W. Lucas OpenBSD
books - lots of info.
Then around 2010 I started using only OpenBSD as my firewall. I studied
and built the pf rules up (thanks Peter N.M. Hansteen) so that I had
confidence in placing OpenBSD on the open Internet as my only
protection.
These days I use only OpenBSD for all my server builds. This includes
router/firewall (pf), http webserver (in base), and OpenVPN servers. If
there is anything I place on the open Internet - it is an OpenBSD build.
No other.
Truthfully, you'll never know how good OpenBSD is until you try it.
That's what I did.
Thank you.
Zann (at zonbie-dot-net)
