Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:49:10 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: openbsd Message-ID: <20011210165119.P16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011210211630.74252.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to know > what is different between openbsd and freebsd effectively, philosophical differences. FreeBSD tends to be technologically superior, with amazing networking ability. FreeBSD was, from the outset, designed to be easy to use, fast on x86 hardware, and still reasonably simple for a beginner to use. i personally think they've done a remarkable job at this. OpenBSD is made with correctness (as in complient with posix standards), security (audited code), and portability (ease of being adapted to new hardware) in mind. in many respects, they can be regarded as a split off of NetBSD. Theo Deraadt, who leads the project, was one of the founding members of NetBSD, way back in the day. it is not really designed to be easy to use, and some parts can be a little cryptic. > and > > does openbsd have iso image for CDROM? OpenBSD does not offer CDRom images for downloading, considering the ability to download the various packages, and build your own cdrom image a bit easier, and less crufty. while a full cdrom image might run around 760 megs, each port of OpenBSD is only around 200mb total, and really doesn't have much in the way to packages. it's also fairly easy to simply download the packages you need (for example, mirror ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.0/sparc/, and run a floppy install and build from your local network. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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