From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 22:34:49 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 4778F16A509 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:34:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-85.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0210E43D5A for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) iB5MYisw002458; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:34:54 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <41B38D04.1080606@circlesquared.com> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:34:44 +0000 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien Hull References: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> In-Reply-To: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 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 22:34:49 -0000 Damien Hull wrote: > 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? This: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_3393051_1 concludes that all the BSDs are evenly matched. Although OpenBSD is the obvious choice for a server. And so is FreeBSD. (I'm paraphrasing). Use whichever you like. I believe FreeBSD performs better as a web server, and it's just the default install of OpenBSD that has had just one root exploit since 1921, or whenever; install ports/packages and this changes. But I'm just glad all the BSDs are available. Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com