OpenBSD: Why and How

Re:OpenBSD: Why and How by dfboyd on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:44AM (#19651163)

"OpenBSD is very secure, so install it and then extract this tarfile full of unknown stuff onto your system"

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How by freedman1611 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:58AM (#19651333)

You're supposed to check the digital signature after downloading the install image. Other than that, it's the same as Linux. Windows has a lot of "unknown stuff too", but you can actually research the source code for OpenBSD if you're worried.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How by wahern on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:09AM (#19651710)

I think dfboyd was referring to the article author's personalization files (https://sivers.org/file/63.tar), not the OpenBSD distribution itself.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How by foobarbazetc on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:10PM (#19656068)

A tar file isn’t going to do much to your system...

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