From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 16:50:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4062537BAA7 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:50:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05456; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:50:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38E54847.EC9D152C@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:52:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gustavo V G C Rios Cc: misc@openbsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDs References: <38E3CAB5.8C23044@tdnet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > Hy folks! > > I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 1 year and some time ago i > decide to give openbsd a try. > > I have been loving Free! Now, playing with Open is no trouble. > Some questions came up: > > 1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? > 2) FreeBSD has proven to be a high quality OS for stupid heavy loaded > site (ftp.cdrom.com)! Can OpenBSD support such a very loaded site? > Since i have never seen such a heavy loaded site using Open, i would > like to know if it (Open) can support such a load using the same > hardware Free uses. > 3) What are the advantage from OpenBSD over FreeBSD, and FreeBSD over > OpenBSD! > > Thanks a lot for time and cooperation. > > PS: I am not asking which is the best OS (a kind of question that should > never be asked). > I only want to know the good/bad things about both of them, since no > OS is perfect! Gustavo, it probably didn't occur to you that you are more qualified than anyone to answer this question. As you say, no OS is perfect, and OpenBSD has a different focus than FreeBSD, even though the systems remain similar. I would be very interested in hearing what you have to say about the two systems in comparison. Reports of reliability, load handling, etc. will be greatly appreciated. It might even make a great article for Daemon News or SysAdmin magazine. -- "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-hackers" in the body of the message