From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 6:32:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110DD37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14sPOz-0003TS-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:32:17 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3PDWHl02227 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:32:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:32:17 +0100 From: Rasputin To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firewall stuff Message-ID: <20010425143217.A2113@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com> <04eb01c0cc43$b8b79cd0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE6CC0F.3133BB70@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3AE6CC0F.3133BB70@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:07:27AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nathan Vidican [010425 14:14]: > Doug Young wrote: > > > The reason I'd picked OpenBSD was indeed its focus on security. Whether > > > or not that is such a big deal in reality was a moot point. It made > > > for a great marketing USP ;). > There's a big reason I use OpenBSD over freebsd; one that neither of you > seemed to touch on. Hardware platform support, I run OpenBSD on Apple > Macintosh, Sun Sparc, and HP 9000 boxes. Doing this with FreeBSD just > isn't possible (yet... I know various ports have been started) NetBSD is the multiplatform king, though. Dont think anything else runs on DreamCasts yet, anyway... :) OpenBSD being descended from that got wide platform support for free, really. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message