Re: an important story about purchasing hardware from the embsd project

Hi Chuck,

On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 01:53  AM, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> resources.  Oh, need hardware.  Ken & Co were nice enough to
> work it out a bit that they could buy hardware in bulk and
> sell it off, for little to no profit.

Single units can be purchased from Soren, who designed the 4501 and
deserves the profit.

emBSD strikes me as a cut down version of an awesome OS which still
needs good knowledge of the base OS to keep it up to date security wise,
since emBSD lags quite a bit in that dept. So the point is clear for me,
you need to learn OpenBSD to keep your emBSD box secure, so you may as
well just cut OpenBSD down yourself and update it yourself. This is the
nature of Soekris and em/OpenBSD anyway.

> Large corporation with warehouses and big finances?  No.
> A guy with a 3 week old baby and an interest.  Perhaps he's
> not as organized and focussed on the biz as he might be right now.
> Perhaps a 3 week old baby can suck all sleep away.

Seriously, I am very grateful to the emBSD guys, but if they can't
keep it updated, give honest answers or even a quick refund, because
one guy has a baby now, then they maybe ought to give it up. I saw
complaints along the same lines long ago, well before the bub came
along.

> Wonder whta's up in the SBC/PPC world.  Love to have an OpenBootProm
> SBC :)

Me too.