From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 15:36:10 2002 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 489AC37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D3243E9C for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:36:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2002112723355700200sok51e>; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:35:57 +0000 Message-ID: <3DE556C0.2030801@mac.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:35:28 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Phillips Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD... References: <01C2962F.DEC866E0.mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> In-Reply-To: <01C2962F.DEC866E0.mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Phillips wrote: > What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? there are more similarities than differences. > > Which flavor of BSD is the most secure straight out of the box? Security is a philosophy and a set of practices, not a feature. The *BSDs offer a lot of security through finely granular control and good design practices, but that puts the onus on the administrator to make the right choices for the situation at hand. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ "But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message