Re: How would I get debian unstable?
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> Note that the reason that OpenBSD can claim only two security holes in
> the default install in the past 10 years is that there are no services
> active in a default install (you have to add commands to the startup
> script to enable them).
Except they don't make that claim, OpenBSD claims two _remote_
security holes in the last ten years, which is entirely different from
only two security holes. They aren't making any claims about local
exploits.
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> People reoutinely built appliances like routers using OpenBSD and e.g. a
> Soekris box and put it on the shelf. They may only update it when a
> security bug happens (rarely). Since there are simple HOWTOs for making
> OpenBSD on a CF card, updating the appliance consists of swapping the CF
> card.
People do the same thing using variants of the Linux kernel. The bsd
kernel is nothing special in that regard :)
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