From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 21:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F3D37B71C for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2M5f2k78992; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:41:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "bryden" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpd7uqAKA; Thu Mar 22 15:40:51 2001 Message-ID: <012d01c0b292$952b8300$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Nikolay N. Semenov" , References: <5515358965.20010322121835@iname.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:40:17 +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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm comparing them both myself .... certainly appears that OpenBSD is more pro-active in security related areas, firewalling is enabled by default instead of requiring a kernel compile, versions don't appear to change as often, apache / sudo / OpenSSH are included in the default install, however its instal process is quite user-hostile by comparison with FreeBSD. I've read that the "trick" is to run the FreeBSD disklabel utility, then install OpenBSD. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolay N. Semenov" To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD > Hello, > > Just tried to compare that UNIX clones > but still unaware of their real differences > except that OpenBSD is more security-oriented. > > Any comments ? > > -- > Best regards, > Nikoay N. Semenov > LAN administrator > KhakasEnergo electric company > Tel. (39022) 92-341 > Fax. (39022) 63-190 > E-mail: nikolay@hakas.elektra.ru > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message