From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 27 23:32:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656D637B402 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14MAmX-0000Dp-00; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:27:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3A719759.78D23ACA@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:27:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Timoteo Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD and FreeBSD References: <71.a38f915.27a1fe5e@aol.com> <20010126105335.A12152@meganet.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pedro Timoteo wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:10:38PM -0500, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > > he guys i was getting mad lately because alot of BSD newbies are choosing > > openbsd because they say it is "more secure" > > Put it this way: both OSs are 1) much more secure than any Linux distro, > and 2) so secure that any security problems your friends have will be > caused by their own mistakes, not OS bugs. :) OpenBSD is more secure *out of the box*. The default FreeBSD installation aims to be more like what most people would want inside their own secure network. Either can be configured like the other with relatively little work. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message