Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:54:47 +0000 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD Message-ID: <20041205225447.GB1472@lb.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> References: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local>
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* Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> [1247 21:47]: > 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 None of that is any better in openbsd, at least in my experience. pf would have been a seller, but all three bsds have that now. In my experience (of openbsd 3.6) you have less ported software, the system is slower, the installer is primitive, kernel/world compiles are difficult... and there's no portupgrade, which is really what brought me back to freebsd from netbsd. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about with openbsd, smells like marketing to me... (no, I don't want to get into a long 'your os is lamer than mine' scrum, thanks. This is my opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it.) -- Tempers are wearing thin. Let's hope some robot doesn't kill everybody. - Bender Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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