From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 19 21:17: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2539437B424; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0AF831C6B; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:16:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:16:52 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: Akbar , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? Message-ID: <20000920001652.U66839@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <89731E9AF92BD411869200D0B71BB4DC0FC297@ASERVER> <200009191942.e8JJgMc03338@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009191942.e8JJgMc03338@gits.dyndns.org>; from root@gits.dyndns.org on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:42:20PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > am seeking out a career in security area and i am seriously thinking of > > learning 1 unix based OS. and i am stuck. which one would be best to learn?? > > for security purpose, OpenBSD is well suitable. just curious: Do you say this just because everyone says "well, FreeBSD is stable/performance, OpenBSD is security oriented, NetBSD is portable", because OpenBSD markets themselves towards security, or based on an independent thought? Every BSD has its strong point, but I wish people would elaborate more then *grunt*grunt* OpenBSD for security *grunt*grunt* -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message