From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 15 7:39: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA0937B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 07:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mimerki@saintmail.net) Received: from saintmail.net (paras-04.dynamic.rpi.edu [128.113.137.93]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6FEctV131078; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:38:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B51AB2E.933E6E07@saintmail.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:39:42 -0400 From: Marcia Barrett Nice X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevinb Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open/free/net im confused References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org kevinb wrote: > I posted a question recently regarding what to use for my web server, > cheers for the replies i got some good advice, so im going to go with BSD > now im stumped as to the differences between open/free/net could someone > please explain the diffs ive looked at there web sites and done some > reading but it would be nive to see an explanation from ppl that have used > the above. > > Cheers > > KevB > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Check out http://www.greasydaemon.com/directory/intro/ In brief, FreeBSD is designed to be the most general purpose, OpenBSD is designed to be "secure by default" and NetBSD is designed to run on anything. I would (of course) recommend FreeBSD as solid, stable and fairly easy to use. However, my opinion is biased and based on having used FreeBSD pretty much exclusively on my box at home for several months now. Not having run Net or Open, I may truly be missing out on the best computing experience of my life.... But I like FreeBSD. Good luck Marci To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message