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From: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 6:45 pm, Jorge Melhado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I=B4d like to know the differences among OpenBSD x NetBSD x FreeBSD.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jorge
>
> jrgmelhado@hotmail.com

FreeBSD concentrates on the i386 and alpha platforms and is the only one =
of=20
the three with SMP support (I think), which presumably makes it better fo=
r=20
high-end servers. NetBSD and OpenBSD both concentrate on making the OS=20
portable to many different architectures, with OpenBSD also emphasising=20
security and encryption tools. FreeBSD has the largest ports collection o=
f=20
the three, with NetBSD quite close behind and OpenBSD a long way off. Whi=
ch=20
one to use basically comes down to personal preference (unless one of the=
m=20
has some killer feature) so you can basically try all three or pick one a=
t=20
random :)

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