From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 06:07:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32B416A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from altrade.nijmegen.internl.net (altrade.nijmegen.internl.net [217.149.192.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0A943F85 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nico.meijer@zonnet.nl) Received: from debian by altrade.nijmegen.internl.net id h8HD7cHj006998 (8.12.9/2.04); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:07:38 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:07:39 +0200 From: Nico Meijer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030917150739.79fbe543.nico.meijer@zonnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <007201c37d18$3931adb0$1e0a0a0a@orbital.net> References: <007201c37d18$3931adb0$1e0a0a0a@orbital.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:07:42 -0000 Hi Andy, Starting World War III, are you? ;-) > Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would > appear from both sites that xxxxBSD is a marvellous operating system, > very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. microsoft.com would like you to believe they make a marvelous operating system, very secure, efficient and cost effective, with probably no mention of the name "Berkeley" whatsoever, even though {a number of, all?} versions of Windows contain Berkeley TCP/IP code if not the complete stack. I believe it has it's uses, btw, but that's for World War version IV. > Both are free and maintained by > really skilled technical people, etc, but what is the difference > between them, why would one use one in preference to the other? Use dmoz.org, Google and whatever rocks your boat, but it seems it usually boils down to something like this: - OpenBSD: security first, usability later; great number of platforms supported - FreeBSD: usability, stability and security take equal share - NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD", ie. portability Roughly, FreeBSD's mailing lists are friendlier than OpenBSD's, unless (and this can't be stressed enough methinks) you do your homework. So make sure you do it. I am hardly the person to comment on any of this, really, so I'll shut up now. Bye... Nico