From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 2:59:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FFF37B40C for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 02:59:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA21608; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:07:12 +0200 Message-ID: <3B77A55F.1080806@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:01:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?? References: <000001c12277$92244e30$3000b1d8@sickness> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David Loszewski wrote: > What exactly is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD and which > one do you peeps prefer and why?? > Since nobody answered yet, I'll jump in. FreeBSd focuses on development on the i386 Platform. Open focuses on security and portability. This does not mean Free is insecure, aas well as it does not mean Open is less developed. Surf at the various BSD websites (e.g. www.daemonnews.org) to learn more about both. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message