From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 8:31:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE4137B76C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark8 (hutch-786.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.86]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA29597; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:31:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <006301c00861$4a67cb20$56470ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "cyberstorm" , References: <399BEE09.F77DDD6C@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: BSD Inquiry... Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:39:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "cyberstorm" To: Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:52 AM Subject: BSD Inquiry... > Hello. > > I'm a Linux user and was wondering why BSD hasn't hit mainstream > yet??? There isn't a graphical X-based utility for every system admin task yet. > The other question is... how does BSD compare to LINUX??? BSD is way better. > For my last question... is there a variety of security software for > this operating system, or does it use the same as Linux??? If not, > would you recommend a firewall and antivirus[if needed]. > FreeBSD comes with a built-in firewall. I don't think I've ever heard of a UNIX virus. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message