From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 2 12: 6:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B9637B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f52J65S61140; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:06:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010602194109.C2630@spotteswoode.yi.org> References: <20010601195419.3283ef01.joel.carnat@noos.fr> <20010602194109.C2630@spotteswoode.yi.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:06:03 -0400 To: clemensF , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Is OpenBSD safer than other BSDs ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:41 PM +0200 6/2/01, clemensF wrote: > > Ken Bolingbroke: > > > If I wanted an absolutely secure gateway just for security, > > I would probably go with OpenBSD, because that's the focus. > > But for general usage, FreeBSD has more features, and still > > has enough of an effort on security concerns ... > >i'd like to know which features there are in freebsd in addition >to openbsd's. is it the vm structure? kame? While such a list could be useful, it would be mighty hard to create and to keep accurate. Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are moving targets, and the list of differences between them will certainly change on a monthly basis. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message