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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 2020 10:46:34 -0500
From:      Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        dwilde1@gmail.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd vs. netbsd
Message-ID:  <637eed20-1326-dabf-ac9d-fac12a9dbaa5@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On 2020-06-08 09:29, Donald Wilde wrote:
> On 6/8/20, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2020, at 11:26 PM, Anatoli <me@anatoli.ws> wrote:
>>>
>>> IMO
>>>
>>> * FreeBSD: servers (performance, stability, relative security, zfs),
>>>   competes directly with Linux
>>>
>>> * OpenBSD: routers/firewalls, desktops (the most secure OS
>>
>> The most secureā€¦ if you dismiss the fact that one of the developer (who
>> wrote network stack if my memory serves me) was simultaneously receiving
>> payments from one of three letter agencies for several years.
>>
> The OpenBSD crew made major contributions to the FOSS community in SSH
> and SSH components, but everybody incorporates them so they are now
> all at the same level.

This is absolute truth for me and I appreciate that fact since forever.

Valeri

> 
> The main remaining difference is that OpenBSD doesn't turn on
> _anything_ unless you specifically ask it to.
> 

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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