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From: Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
To: "Tony Vickers" <tony@imnetworks.com>,
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Subject: Re: Which BSD
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:49:04 -0500
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In my humble opinion (I'm somewhat new at this). I tried FreeBSD, OpenBSD, 
NetBSD in that order, and finally settled on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD's easy to use and has all the bells & whistles,  best documentation, 
and seems to be a little more conservative with it's components (eg. still 
uses tried&true Xfree86 3.3.6... which is good, I couldn't get 4x to work)

Openbsd's default install is very secure (so secure that I could not 
configure it to send or receive any mail). This one's not for beginners, I 
gave up trying to make it do anything useful...

NetBSD's default install is sparse, but it runs on just about anything!

On March 18, 2002 07:01 pm, Tony Vickers wrote:
> I would like to thank the guys that answered my question about SM{P,
> Thanks! We are going to move forward with BSD. But THE question still needs
> to be answered. I do not want to start a flame war on between the BSDs,and
> or linux or should I say GNU-linux but I need to know which BSD is best.
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Tony
>
> Tony Vickers
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