From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 15:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mg.hk5.outblaze.com (202-123-209-152.outblaze.com [202.123.209.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1CD37B403 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ws4.us.outblaze.com (ws4.us.outblaze.com [209.249.164.192]) by mg.hk5.outblaze.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f85Mq8419697 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:52:08 GMT Received: (qmail 6010 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Sep 2001 06:52:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20010905065206.6009.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Received: from ws4.us.outblaze.com for [213.32.214.118] via web-mailer on Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:52:06 +0800 From: "Daniel Blankensteiner" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:52:06 +0800 Subject: FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To “FreeBSD” I have a little problem I hope you will help me with. I have to choose an operating system for my server and I am torn between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I have heared a lot of good things about each, but I have found that most people use FreeBSD and there is more literature on FreeBSD. But when I visit your website and OpenBSD’s the to headlines concern me: FreeBSD: "Please be aware that the telnet daemon shipping in FreeBSD prior to July 23, 2001 contains a remotely exploitable security problem. " OpenBSD: "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!" I have read about OpenBSD’s default installation and found out that it meant no running services, but I couldn’t find similar information on you website. So there of my first question is: Which services are running after a FreeBSD default installation? And my second: In your honest opinion, which of the two OS’s are the most secure? (less buggiest) And finally my last question: Which of the two OS’s have the brightest future? I hope you will answer my questions*S* Yours sincerely Daniel Blankensteiner Denmark -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message