On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:31:23PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de) [010206 20:24]: > > > Last friday I started Debian OpenBSD with the following targets > > > and milestones: > > >... > > > > One question out of interest: What is the opinion of the OpenBSD people on > > your project? > > I would like to know, too. I wrote Theo about my intent and he > never answered. > > > Why don't you use the powerful GNU-tools? I know that they compile and > > work perfect under NetBSD and I expect the same under OpenBSD. > > Right now I try to avoid the gnu tools because using their source > is not as well reviewed as the OpenBSD code. Introducing such > code probatly will open security holes. It might be ok to use > them in the packaging process if all else fails. the main GNU tools in question is a small group of software, why not put it through an audit? this would benifit every GNU/Linux distro. GNU tools are one of the first things i compile and install replacing the BSD tools on such systems. i don't see the point of a Debian BSD if it does not use GNU userland. as for security issues, the security of a OpenBSD system goes down quite a bit once you add everything needed to do a given job. as soon as you enable any services its no longer counted as `secure'. just see thier attitude about no root hole in the default install in 3 years, ftpd and whatnot don't count since they are disabled by default in thier current OpenBSD release. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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