Steve Fairhead wrote:
snip
Second, you mentioned embedded work, which is my main work area. Yes,
embedded stuff needs to be stable long-term - but the Internet isn't:
threats change, and OpenBSD evolves. A classic solution to that (which I've
used) is to simply accept that the legacy embedded
* Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-04-30 19:51]:
I agree online threats change; my argument is for a stable core o/s, with
patches made for threat mitigation and stable API and ABI and configuration
within a major release number, to make life easier for small shops that
Henning Brauer wrote:
* Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-04-30 19:51]:
snip
we do not tend to drop support for hardware. happens for really really
ancient stuff (10years) from time to time, but even that seldom.
In the context of this discussion, the hardware is about
* Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-04-30 21:42]:
Henning Brauer wrote:
* Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-04-30 19:51]:
snip
we do not tend to drop support for hardware. happens for really really
ancient stuff (10years) from time to time, but even
And can I ask you Michael what any of this has to do with my original post?
Look at the subject.
Why not start your own thread instead of hi-jacking someone else's?
Bill
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William J. Chivers
Lecturer in Information Technology
School of DCIT
Faculty
William Chivers wrote:
And can I ask you Michael what any of this has to do with my original
post? Look at the subject. Why not start your own thread instead of
hi-jacking someone else's?
I was replying to Steve Fairhead's post of 04/12...
Steve Fairhead wrote:
Slightly late in responding
Hello Michael,
Apologies, I guess I was irritated that my original post, with the title above
and written a few weeks ago, was immediately hijacked back then and my original
point was lost. Even Theo responded, not to my point but to the hijack, which
was a rather ignorant question.
Such is
Because, you know, blind faith has such a solid track record and reputation.
On 31/03/2009, David Schulz mailingli...@pg-sec.com wrote:
For me, i cant even estimate the time and effort that goes into all the
related work and issues for OpenBSD, and thus am more than thankful. OpenBSD
sits in
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Artur Grabowski a...@blahonga.org wrote:
Is it troll-week on m...@?
if only it could be confined to one week a year...
Slightly late in responding to this, but hey:
Michael Grigoni wrote:
William Chivers wrote:
Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD.
Some people responding to the European Orders thread seem to have lost
sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie
For me, i cant even estimate the time and effort that goes into all the
related work and issues for OpenBSD, and thus am more than thankful. OpenBSD
sits in every important Corner for two Businesses i am involved in, I could
not live without it. I purchase each CD that comes out, have all the
David Schulz escribis:
For me, i cant even estimate the time and effort that goes into all the
related work and issues for OpenBSD, and thus am more than thankful. OpenBSD
sits in every important Corner for two Businesses i am involved in, I could
not live without it. I purchase each CD that
Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org writes:
I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental
question to pose however. It seems that opensource culture for
large projects is driven by featurism and the need to make massive
changes incorporated into frequent
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Michael Grigoni wrote:
A modular approach to an O/S would be welcome; say a major version every five
years, with an a la carte menu of features, which are subject to versioning
much like there is a 'version 3 MS-Windows', with known performance
characteristics
and
Hello,
Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD.
Some people responding to the European Orders thread seem to have lost sight
of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie here (although I
have been using computers in my career since 1972), but it seems to me
William Chivers wrote:
Hello,
Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD.
Some people responding to the European Orders thread seem to have lost
sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie here
(although I have been using computers in my career since
I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question
to pose however. It seems that opensource culture for large projects
is driven by featurism and the need to make massive changes incorporated
into frequent releases.
I come from a background of very long-term
* Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org [2009-03-31 04:38]:
A modular approach to an O/S would be welcome; say a major version every five
years, with an a la carte menu of features, which are subject to versioning
and upgrade over that period, and maintenance of a stable set of APIs,
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