From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 21:47:12 2004 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 5A27816A52F for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:47:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sampson.aptedtech.com (sampson.aptedtech.com [209.124.140.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43C343D64 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:47:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dhull@digitaloverload.net) Received: (qmail 14766 invoked by uid 66); 5 Dec 2004 22:18:32 -0000 Received: from dhull@digitaloverload.net by sampson.aptedtech.com by uid 60 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (sophie: 2.10/3.63. Clear:. Processed in 0.080468 secs); 05 Dec 2004 22:18:32 -0000 Received: from 209-124-142-204.olive.dsl.arctic.net (HELO tower1.digitaloverload.local) (209.124.142.204) by sampson.customcpu.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 22:18:31 -0000 From: Damien Hull To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:47:08 -0900 Message-Id: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD or 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: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:47:12 -0000 I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD 3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything other then a firewall on OpenBSD. I'm thinking about using OpenBSD on more servers. Before I do that I would like to know what people on the list think. Why I want to switch to OpenBSD. 1. OpenBSD has good security 2. Stable 3. Firewall and routing support is built in Why I use FreeBSD 1. Stable 2. Ports tree has a lot of software 3. I can upgrade to new versions Should I make the switch from FreeBSD to OpenBSD for my servers? -- Damien Hull