NetBSD for Mac68K

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at coe.neu.edu
Sun Jun 11 18:14:21 EDT 2000


Hello,
	You may be intrested to know that Theo DeRalt was a developer for
NetBSD.  Theo left the NetBSD project due to creative differences - he
beleived in security - they didn't seem to.  You may want to look into
OpenBSD if security is an issue.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Randall Hofland wrote:

> Is anyone using this with a Macintosh Quadra or 2Ci and able to provide
> feedback on their experiences? I'm considering using one or another to
> act as a modem server (I have lots of little used 2Cis and Quadras) and
> need to know IF:
> 
> 1) NetBSD works well and is stable and secure
> 
> 2)  If anyone has the latest CD series for installing this.
> 
> I am partiularly interested in running a light duty firewall in the Mac
> to act as a prescreen, although I could also just use MacOS and lock
> down the drive plus disable virtual memory to prevent misappropriation.
> Either way the modem box will then feed into a Linux firewall using
> IPChains.
> 
> Any info and/or advice is appreciated.
> 
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