Contributed by Dengue on from the go-their-own-way dept.
Does it make *sense*? What's the point here?
http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#ssh
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Contributed by Dengue on from the go-their-own-way dept.
Does it make *sense*? What's the point here?
http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#ssh
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By Nomen Nescio () on
Unix has ported OpenSSH.
OpenBSD has 'generic' OpenSSH.
Why is it strange then that NetBSD want their own ported? version ? It seems NetSSH.org is still available ...
By Kart () kart@hal-pc.org on mailto:kart@hal-pc.org
Unfortunately, NetBSD isn't accepting OpenSSH because it has OpenBSD cooties. Apparently there's still a lot of bad blood between NetBSD and OpenBSD.
IMHO this is just silly. I've heard the old horror stories[1] about Theo and the NetBSD folks, but since I've never directly talked w/ Theo I can't really judge him. I use OpenBSD because it works on my hardware and doesn't require a zillion hours a week to maintain. The OBSD people that I *have* met[2] are very congenial.
If you absolutely msut boycott someone's software based, why not set a better example and boycott $BIG_EVIL_COMPANY?
Bad vibes between different groups of developers is a real stumbling block sometimes. Another example of this is Steve Job's Apple vs. Jean-Louis Gasee's Be: JLG pissed of the Apple execs (including Jobs) one too many times so they fired him. He went off to develop his own platform which gathered a small following. Eventually JLG's new OS ran on Apple's hardware better than the current MacOS did. Apple almost considered buying BeOS as the next generation Mac operating system. That is, they *would have* bought BeOS, but Jean-Louis had already pissed off the wrong people, and right about that time JLG's arch-nemesis steve Jobs was returning to Apple waving a big old NeXT flag.
kart@hal-pc.org
[1] No, I wasn't a BSD user back then.
[2] Random net friends, plus a few folks from the local FreeBSD users' group.
--
"The few users willing to experiment with alternatives are vacuumed up by the quality-flawed but still philosophically attractive open source meme" -- Scot Hacker
"Something about the GPL causes developers to not write documentation." -- Theo deRaadt
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By Nobody You'd Know () on
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By Kart () kart@hal-pc.org on mailto:kart@hal-pc.org
They're hardly a "third ring clown show".
By David Terrell () dbt@meat.net on http://www.meat.net/~dbt/
I don't think this is worth commenting on until we see their SSH offering.
By Figec () on
-Russian proverb?
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By Yiorgos Adamopoulos () adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr on http://www.ntua.gr/~adamo/
By Noryungi () n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on http://www.slashdot.org
Then, just to annoy the OpenBSD crew (& Theo), they will quietly fix it and release "NetSSH" under a very restrictive licence.
Ouch! Stop the flames! I was just joking!! =)
By BSDaemon () on
They only switched to BSD is because they want to be more 31337.
"The new implementation is cleaner, more modular (protocols, crypto libraries, OS support, and authentication mechanisms), faster, and more
portable."
If you don't want this new version of SSH, simply don't use it. Don't bitch about the fact that people have ONE MORE CHOICE.
If you are one of those people who bitch I suggest you get back where you came from, i.e. the Linux community, I'm sure you'll fit well with the other trolls at Slashdot.
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By Anonymous () anonymous@null.com on mailto:anonymous@null.com
By Anonymous Coward () on
Of course there could be other reasons, but we're not going to take too seriously some reasons which could be thought of as obscure, or childish, or...
since this cannot be the case amongst the "BSD crowd" , or?
By Anonymous Coward () on
Of course there could be other reasons, but we're not going to take too seriously some reasons which could be thought of as obscure, or childish, or...
since this cannot be the case amongst the "BSD crowd" , or?
By Nobody You'd Know () on
Or maybe you're a mentally impaired rhesus monkey with yes-man syndrome and a frontal lobotomy. We just don't know.
By Anon () anon@y.mous on mailto:anon@y.mous
herd of gazelles vs rhino.
If I were running a NetBSD box I would use a different implementation simply because it *is* different. Hopefully it would have a different set of insecurities.
By Anonymous Coward () on http://thedesertfox.net/