[–] dfboyd 7y ago ↗ "OpenBSD is very secure, so install it and then extract this tarfile full of unknown stuff onto your system" [–] freedman1611 7y ago ↗ 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. [–] wahern 7y ago ↗ I think dfboyd was referring to the article author's personalization files (https://sivers.org/file/63.tar), not the OpenBSD distribution itself. [–] foobarbazetc 7y ago ↗ A tar file isn’t going to do much to your system...
[–] freedman1611 7y ago ↗ 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. [–] wahern 7y ago ↗ I think dfboyd was referring to the article author's personalization files (https://sivers.org/file/63.tar), not the OpenBSD distribution itself. [–] foobarbazetc 7y ago ↗ A tar file isn’t going to do much to your system...
[–] wahern 7y ago ↗ I think dfboyd was referring to the article author's personalization files (https://sivers.org/file/63.tar), not the OpenBSD distribution itself. [–] foobarbazetc 7y ago ↗ A tar file isn’t going to do much to your system...
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