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MicroBSD - All your BSDs are belong to us

Contributed by jose on from the All-your-BSDs-are-belong-to-us dept.

OutBack Dingo writes :
"A group of Unix Security Professionals are taking further initiatives to build a Secure, Hardened Posix1e draft OS called MicroBSD .

MicroBSDs are stripped down hardened secure version builds. The concept for MicroBSD is a hardend secure Posix1e small foot print OS for x86/Alpha/Sun/PPC (or other) hardware to use as little hard disk space as possible yet provide fully functional Systems. "

this looks like a good project for people interested in enhancing the security of OpenBSD to become involve with.

OutBack Dingo writes :

"A group of Unix Security Professionals are taking further initiatives to build a Secure, Hardened Posix1e draft OS called MicroBSD . While building on the roots of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, known for their stability, security & robustness, they have actually forked into a specialized hardened distribution. It seems they are on their way to merge the best of both worlds back into one. While most "hardened" and "secured" distros these days seem to be Linux based, here is a solid entry from the BSD community."

MicroBSDs are stripped down hardened secure version builds. The concept for MicroBSD is a hardend secure Posix1e small foot print OS for x86/Alpha/Sun/PPC (or other) hardware to use as little hard disk space as possible yet provide fully functional Systems. Based on a complete server model, builds for Firewall/IDS/VPN/SMTP/WWW/DNS/FTP and other combinations will be developed over time. "

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  1. By damien () on

    Where are sources on MicroBSD's Website ?! :)

  2. By Anonymous Coward () on

    > A group of Unix Security Professionals

    It's not really clear who is behind the project - a company? individual? group of individuals? is it going to become a commercial distribution in the future?

    Another thing - the website talks about all three BSDs in several places, somewhere else it mentiones only FreeBSD and OpenBSD, current distribution seems to be based purely on OpenBSD. So, what is it going to be?

    Is there any relation to Fugu project by any chance? [ http://fugu.bsws.de/ ]

  3. By George W. Bush () PRESIDENT@WhiteHouse.Gov on http://www.whitehouse.gov/

    Just because someone says that their software is secure doesn't
    mean jack shit, folks. I seriously doubt these people even keep up
    with bugtraq, the MicroBSD web site is running PHPNuke for christ's sake.

  4. By RC () on

    I've looked through their 'security enhancements' and modifications. Just about everything seems nominal. One exception is the TCP port ACL. You can give a certain user rights to a certain TCP port. i.e. Run Apache COMPLETELY as an unprivlidged user.

    So, start back-porting TCP port ACLs and I'll finally be completely happy with the security of an OpenBSD box.

  5. By chris () dioc2oo2@hotmail.com on mailto:dioc2oo2@hotmail.com

    The posts/replies are utterly ridiculous. So many of you act as though OpenBSD is the ONLY security minded project out there. Is it even conceivable that there are other people besides Theo and the OpenBSD team that know ANYTHING about security?? I'm not saying MicroBSD is as good or better than OpenBSD.. but just give it a glance.. you don't like the site..don't use it. No big deal. All this talk about "who are you" .. "we don't know them..." Who do you know personally from the OpenBSD contributors? I don't know them personally.. sure they have names but we're not old drinking buddys. I still use OpenBSD and I love it.. because I tried it and it works great for me. OpenBSD started from somewhere, from someone... maybe MicroBSD has it's place. I'm just tired of coming to deadly.org to read a bunch of whiners. You like it.. use it.. you don't.. no one will care.

    ::chris

    and no.. I'm not part of the "we" in MicroBSD.

  6. By knomevol () knomevol@sanctuary.prv on mailto:knomevol@sanctuary.prv

    for heaven's sake...

    forking openbsd into a more hardened, stripped, and secure bsd -- and then adding in the power-points of fbsd, nbsd, & future obsd enhancements?

    it's acoustical signature echos of a currently rolling wheel: openbsd.

    that's one small change to an image of openbsd, one giant fork for bsd-kind.

  7. By Spiff () on

    why are you people whining and complaining when we all know wether microbsd is/will be safe can't be told yet? all your arguments yet are based on bad assumptions while you should be providing constructive criticism if any.

  8. By Anonymous Coward () on

    Can someone explain to me why so many smart people dont know how to communicate ?

    What on earth does one acomplish with negative communication ? What good comes out off it ?

    Ask yourself what you are doing and why. Everyone can do that.

    ``I am whining like a bitch because someone thinks differently then I do'' ``I am doing that because the next time I look in the mirror I want to say to myself "hey! look! I wouldnt do what those microbsd guys did, I am far to cool for that, they suck! I rule!" and now I can continue my negative way off thinking''

    I thought bsd was about sharing stuff ?

    I am really not getting all the negativity. And yes my post is negative as well. I shouldnt have posted it actually.... oh well.. spank me ;p

  9. By Anonymous Coward () on

    Hi i really don't have anything useful to say but wanted to participate in this interesting topic. Since no one else has said anything useful yet, i figured it wouldn't matter that this post said nothing either. thanks guys.

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