From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 08:01:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29610 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 08:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29605 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 08:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02603; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:01:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803011601.LAA02603@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: OpenBSD??? In-Reply-To: <19980301004043.61532@urh.uiuc.edu> from dannyman at "Mar 1, 98 00:40:43 am" To: dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org (dannyman) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:01:31 -0500 (EST) Cc: perl@netmug.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dannyman said: > On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 04:44:50PM -0800, Michael Haro wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering how OpenBSD and FreeBSD differ. > > In a nutshell; > > OpenBSD is more secure, and has more support for different platforms, whereas > FreeBSD is much better suited to your average Joe trying to run a system on > an Intel box without too much challenge. > FreeBSD generally has significantly higher performance when under stress also. Also, there is now (finally) an active Alpha port, with code being committed to the tree, and a funded Ultra-sparc effort. Other architectures appear to be funded also (not public info yet.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message