AFIK, fire-proof boxes are designed to keep paper from bruning, not protecting electronic media. A few hours in a fire would probably fade any data stored in a fire safe.

No known infections   

Got a pretty good sampling so far. I personally use windows installed on a second hard drive. I only turn on that hard drive when I want to move coins.

I primarily use Ubuntu on my netbook and have win7 for when I want to watch Netflix. Before my desktop died (ran the cpu and gpu miner at the same time and blew my small 460 Watt PSU which took my motherboard with it >.<) I mostly used win7 and occasionally ran ubuntu.

ORly? OpenBSD may not be that good of an idea
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

Depends.  OpenBSD's claim to fame is that it's default install is secure from remote attacks.  However it's default install has just about nothing and while pkgs and the ports tree are audited to a point they share an awful lot of code with the parent project.  I.e. There have been far more than two remote exploits in Apache on OpenBSD.  I myself have had an OpenBSD box hacked.

OpenBSD has a richer privilege system than standard Linux but not better than GrSecurity which is a full-blown RBAC system.

As I've mentioned way too many times.  I also think that OpenBSD could have done a better job on W^X which is their ASLR product.  PaX is much more robust (but as a contrast it needs to be enabled).


I used hardened Gentoo - that's Gentoo with PaX/GrSecurity patches.

bitcoinX.com stats:

Windows     76.11%    
Linux          10.40%    
Macintosh   10.04%


The same poll but only for mining rigs and detailed to xp/vista/7 would be very interesting.

Similar to Gentoo.  Which is source based, ergo patches get integrated into the package management system quickly....in fact you can easily create or modify an ebuild to accept a patch that isn't in the current source tree.