BSD And Other Things

OpenBSD is really pushing that W^X stuff in ports. In -current you can only have W|X pages in a program linked with wxneeded and on a wxallowed filesystem.

>>55981510
As it should be. That's probably why they recommend you separate your OpenBSD primary partition as much as possible.

Also, RPI support very soon:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147059203101111&w=2

Genuine question here, what advantages doe BSD have over any linux distribution?

>>55982457
it's an actual operating system unlike linux distros which are just linux + a userland that are developed separately

>>55982457
The license says you can steal from them. Go ahead and steal some bsd code for yourself. No one cares.

>>55981007
Serious question. How do you secure OpenBSD against third party exploits? What is the substitution for MAC in OpenBSD?

>>55982634
Isn't that a good thing? Even if it isn't, why is that important?

>>55983769
code quality is a little more consistent

the patches are usually released by the dev teams themselves instead of having 60 different distros with 60 different patches

I fancy moving over from GNU/Linux to BSD as a daily driver, but there's one thing I want to ask first, does Steam natively run in *BSD? I'm not really too interested in playing video games, but I use it to talk to people

>>55984710
>does Steam natively run in *BSD?
nope, only way you can get that to run is through freebsd with the linux compat layer

it's a pain in the ass

So hyped for OpenBSD 6.0.