From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 6:26: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C110E37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-143-80.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.80]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA05553; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:24:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <014001c0cd8b$3eaf06a0$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Nathan Vidican" Cc: , , , References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com> <04eb01c0cc43$b8b79cd0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE6CC0F.3133BB70@wmptl.com> Subject: Re: firewall stuff Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:25:41 +1000 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 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There's a big reason I use OpenBSD over freebsd; one that neither of >.you seemed to touch on. Hardware platform support, I run OpenBSD on > Apple Macintosh, Sun Sparc, and HP 9000 boxes. Doing this with > FreeBSD just isn't possible (yet... I know various ports have been >started), however when it comes to the i386 platform I run FreeBSD pretty much exclusively. Primarily for the reasons indicated in your emails: ease of use, ports collection, email/list support. Well, that's my two cents. > As someone around here said recently, FreeBSD users prefer "proper" computers ie NOT AppleMacs :) Seriously though I was certainly aware of the OpenBSD support, but thats not a relevant issue for me ... & many "serious" users are probably in the same boat for that matter. A Sun SPARC would be an overkill for most situations I strike ..... however if I had one it would definitely stay with Solaris & a decent GUI.rather than some poxridden unstable KDE disaster. > Nathan Vidican > Nathan@Vidican.com > http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message