Try this one: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10

I have to say, this is shaping up to be a very interesting release. Bhyve, in particular, sounds very promising...

Three points:

1) See the above discussion: you cannot trust anything that you did not create and compile yourself. With a compiler you wrote yourself. On a machine you created yourself from the ground up, that is not connected to any network in any way. OpenBSD does not make any difference if your compiler or toolchain is compromised.

2) Speaking of which, I cannot but note that OpenBSD had a little kerfuffle a while back, about a backdoot planted by the FBI in the OS? (Source 1) (Source 2). I am willing to bet that (a) it's perfectly possible (though not likely), (b) if it was done, it was not by the FBI and (c) that the dev @openbsd.org are, right now, taking another long and hard look at the incriminated code.

3) Finally OpenBSD lacking features and convenience? Care to support that statement? I have a couple of computers running OpenBSD here, and they are just as nice - or even nicer - to use than any Linux. Besides, you don't choose OpenBSD for convenience - you use it for its security. Period.

This goes way beyond a simple question of OpenSSL certificates - think OpenSSH and VPN security being compromised, and you will have a small idea of the sh*tstorm brewing right now.

In Europe YOU cap your ISP!

vnstat -m reports 74.04Gib on my home Linux server for this month only. I have had months with a lot more traffic than that.

No, they are part of a much larger conglomerate. Said conglomerate may choose to cooperate with NSA/TLA agency, and choose not to divulge the fact to their users. (This being said, Slashdot has had problems of that nature before, although much less dire). The only solution would then be for the Slashdot crew to take the high road and resign "en masse", while publicly stating why as the Lavabit founder did.

I am not so sure of that, unfortunately. (sigh)

Been there, done that. Maybe that is what is needed: worldwide protest against the NSA? Black pages everywhere? Again, I am not sure that this would change anything, but one can dream.

Educate yourself: Lavabit founder has specifically stated that he did not wat to compromise the privacy of his users.

Source: https://lavabit.com/

He has also stated that he could be arrested for shutting down his site:

Source: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order?lite

I may be ''rather fucking stupid'' as you say, but, at this stage, I trust Lavabit more than I trust the NSA.

And please learn the difference between "convent" and "convenient". I am not a religious person and I have no intention of ever becoming a monk.

True, but a reminder about who owns the site is always a good thing. Besides, what are you doing here, except expressing an opinion ? (I'll grant you it's not on Groklaw itself, but still...)

She is taking pre-emptive action, in the interests of her readers and contributors. I respect that.

But here is the horrible thing: even if /. has received a National Security Letter... They can't tell you.

Think about this for just a second. They. Cannot. Tell. You.

Relevant graphic: https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Graphics/nsa_1984.gif

And #slashdot is not #twitter, you moron.

Seriously, enough with the hashtags already. Learn how to type proper messages!

And. Get. Off. My. Lawn!! ;-)

Two points:

1) It's HER site. If she does not want to continue, for whatever reason, it's HER choice. Disagree with her? Create your own Groklaw.
2) Especially given the Lavabit precedent, I can understand her decision.

Remember: you may be secretly ordered to spy on your own users, and secretly prevented to even mention this to anyone - including your own lawyers - and threatened with criminal prosecution if you decide to do right thing and shut everything down. Big Brother wants to be able to watch you. All the time.

As for being a ''gutless coward'' (your words, not mine), try running a high-traffic, high-visibility web site for a while, with all the attendant legal problems and shenanigans (see above), and we will talk about it for while, mmmmmkay?

Good for you.

I tried Debian too, for a while - got sick and tired of having a single package pull down 95% of Gnome during its installation.

Went back to Slackware, where, at least, I am the one responsible for deciding what gets installed or not.

You and me both, brother.

Started on Slackware way back in 1995-1996. Still using it.

Let me add a few datapoints here, as a reminder...

1) The AES competition was launched in part because DES and 3DES were cracked by EFF using FPGA-based brute-force decryption machine. Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_des_faq.html

As a reminder, DES was THE standard crypto algorithm, vetted and approved by NSA. It could be cracked by EFF only because of Moore's Law and some serious budget and effort.

2) Public-key cryptography was invented separately at GCHQ (UK NSA) and NSA itself, several years *before* Diffie-Hellmann. Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#History

So, yes, these people (NSA/GCHQ) are very good at what they do. They have had at least 10 years of head-start, since cryptography was considered for many years just a branch of mathematics in academic circles. These guys work on nothing but crypto and digital/analog communications, year in, year out. Do not underestimate them.

3) One of the first electronic computers, was delivered to the NSA in the 1950s. NSA later suggested improvements to the company that built it. The first Cray supercomputers were delivered straight to NSA. Again, that was in the 1950s, when most computer companies (IBM comes to mind) were still struggling to define what a computer was good for. Source:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/digitalcomputer_industry.pdf
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/370/mathematica/m1_eniac.pdf

4) The NSA and GCHQ have a long history of backdoors. They love these things, as they make their life so much easier. Read on Venona, Enigma, Ivy Bells: all of these were made possible by intercepting/copying one-time pads, selling "unbreakable" German encryption machines and tapping undersea Russian cables. And I am willing to bet these are just a small fraction of what these people have done over the years. Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

Again, this is just a small fraction of what NSA and GCHQ have done over the years. So, yes, suspecting backdoors in open-source software is... shall we say... only natural.

If I was paid to be a professional paranoid, I would be taking a very long hard look at my computers and telecom equipment right now.