ekkoBSD is a BSD OS which offers security, stability, and flexability to your infrastructure. As a default installation, it gives you an email server, Web Server, ssh, and several other services that would normally need to be added and secured. This release is the first native build under an ekkoBSD host. Some highlights include the replacement of bsd-ftpd with pure-ftpd, security fixes, changes to the hierarchy, the introduction of the new installer, and the new fdialog.
ekkoBSD 1.0 BETA1B Released
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I can’t figure out which bsd they forked, their website doesnt mention those details.
Taras
The same question bothers me as well. I spent like 15 minutes digging through their site was was not able to find out. Too bad there doesnt seem to be an archive of their mailing lists, browsing them could’ve shed some light on the subject.
but I thought that was a Linux problem! 😛 But still, choice is good right? We shall see how this goes…
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, MirBSD, PicoBSD, TrustedBSD, ekkoBSD… did I miss any ?
It’s a fork from OpenBSD.
I think it’s forked from OpenBSD, I could be mistaken, of course. Why not tell it on their web pages?
you missed ISOS, MicroBSD, and then the umteen hundred “blah on a floppy”.. plus the NetBSD Firewall Project ….
I don’t know if you did miss any, but IMHO there are too many flavours.
Look at the CVSWEB. http://www.ekkobsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile has the follwing RCSIDs:
# $ekkoBSD: Makefile,v 1.5 2003/11/15 21:12:07 dave Exp $
# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.92 2003/05/17 20:58:52 millert Exp $
This indicates that they have forked from OpenBSD. Which makes me wonder, as a MirBSD developer, what is the difference between OpenBSD (or MirBSD) and ekkoBSD? Can someone shed more light on this? The website does not say very much.
–Benny.
I can assure you that over the coming weeks (if you do watch the website) you will see new things added into ekko.
I think that the major difference is the philosophy – which will surely have quite an impact on what you see added into ekko.
If you have questions, please subscribe to the mailing lists and field them there. We’re more than happy to answer your queries.
I hope this means a full install of this is small. Then I’ll slap it on one of my old Pentiums with one of my small HD’s (I only have small spares) as a server. The other BSD’s are a bit too big for my HD’s and I’m too lazy to figure out how to make them really small.
its merely ultra-light FreeBSD.
Now, i’m not trolling here, and i couldn’t since i use slackware at home, but how can you guys (and i assume you are all linux users?) say that there are too many BSDs when i can think of many many more Linuxes than BSDs? Here’s a short list, just out of the top of my head:
Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Vector, Debian, Libranet, Gentoo, Yellowdog, turbo, College Linux (!!!!), Knoppix, Gnoppix, Conectiva, Caixa mágica (that’s a portuguese one, you wouldn’t know), Lindows, Linex, JBLinux… the list goes on and on and on.
On BSD, at least with the three major ones, NET, Open and Free, we know what’s their specific goal, but there are so many distinct linux distros that sometimes i wonder “what the hell is this for?”
Now, as i said, i’m not trolling, i just find it funny that we, as linux users, say that there are too many BSDs.
Linux users were already saying that when there were only 3 known BSDs. They would consider the kernels, saying that Linux could have 200 distributions, it was always the same kernel (not exactly true), while the BSDs had 3 different kernels.
Now I have always wondered how one could compare one kernel to full blown OSes, and, speaking of numbers, one member of the SysV family to the whole family of BSDs.
It does say OpenBSD on their website. You just overlooked it, “P”.
Darren
but a project to bring several security focused technologies into FreeBSD http://www.trustedbsd.org/
This is where MACs, ACLs etc comes from in FreeBSD 5
My comment was purely tongue in cheek, I didn’t mean it literally – there could be a hundred BSDs and I wouldn’t bat an eyelash. Competition is good.
>>FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, MirBSD, PicoBSD,
>>TrustedBSD, ekkoBSD… did I miss any ?
WarBSD
yeah, you forgot OS X 8)
“FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, MirBSD, PicoBSD, TrustedBSD, ekkoBSD… did I miss any?”
TrustedBSD is not a BSD OS. It is a set of security extentions to the FreeBSD operating system. Calling TrustedBSD a BSD OS is like calling the Advanced Linux Sound Archictecture a Linux distribution…