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    2019-10-17

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Intro to most secure OS OpenBSD with sexiest Manjaro DeepIn Linux

Why I Switched From Arch Linux to OpenBSD

Product Review - OpenBSD 6.3

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  • Can't import bookmarks in Firefox
    Thank you. I appreciate the answer. I was grokking the openbsd.org website for quite a while and didn't see anything like this. Source: 5 months ago
  • fw_update: yes//SHA256.sig: No such file or directory
    I seem to be able to ping openbsd.org, as I see 64 bytes from... continuously. However, when I try to install software such as doas pkg_add vim I get Can't find vim. Source: 5 months ago
  • Configuring a simple router with OpenBSD
    OpenBSD is a security-first Unix-like operating system belonging to the BSD family of operating systems. It is best known for the OpenSSH project founded in 1999 under the OpenBSD umbrella which has garnered widespread adoption beyond OpenBSD, including the infamous Linux operating system and even Microsoft Windows (since Windows 10). - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
  • Why Artix?
    There are Gentoo variants with precompiled binary packages and backward compatibility. Redcore , Calculate, Pentoo, Funtoo and others. By OpenBSD I mean. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Help, Installing OpenBSD for first time.
    (unable to get list from openbsd.org, but that is OK). Source: about 1 year ago
  • OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption in 2022
    This suprises me - everything you need to get started can be found at openbsd.org, click on 'FAQ'. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • aarch64 I2C detection problems on rpi4 hardware.
    I know the rule, try to research first on man pages, openbsd.org, ect, and ask people as for the last resort. Unfortunately, I have exhausted all resources online that I could find. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Is openbsd.org down?
    $ curl https://openbsd.org Curl: (7) Failed to connect to openbsd.org port 443 after 178 ms: Connection refused. Source: over 2 years ago
  • How often are you thanked for the job you do?
    Believe it or not, a lot of the knowledge is freely available or dirt cheap. For example, OpenBSD provides a FAQ with detailed installation instructions. Every program that comes with the operating system has documentation available offline. If you have spare hardware around or know how to set up a virtual machine, you can teach yourself Unix and programming in your spare time. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Forking(?) OpenBSD
    So if for example, all of openbsd.org got deleted one day, there would still be a working infrastructure available. Also of course any improvements made on the local infrastructure would be shared with the larger community. Source: over 2 years ago
  • World's Most Secure Rails App -- OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2)
    OpenBSD is by far my favorite operating system. Known as the world's most secure OS by default, it features its own super-simplified and ultra-secure webserver/firewall/reverse proxy/mailer daemon/TLS suite etc. Which are all supereasy to use. If you think Linux is cool, wait till you try this. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Any suckless OS?
    The OS A. Garbe have used, also a very simple and more or less "sucklessy": OpenBSD. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • NetBSD9.1 nginx http2 uhm?!?
    Please shut down netbsd, remove the website redirect the domains to openbsd.org or freebsd.org or even shit.com is better to save others some time. Source: about 3 years ago

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Best free Linux router and firewall distributions of 2023
These systems are not intended for routers. They are general-purpose operating systems and should not really be used as routers. Similar to OpenBSD and VyOS, you will have to configure everything by hand without a Web Interface. It's easy to make a mistake and leave a hole that exposes internal systems to attackers.

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