From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 15:18:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe51.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CE037B424 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:18:45 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [139.87.90.77] Reply-To: "Ben Hyatt" From: "Ben Hyatt" To: "Roelof Osinga" , "Doug Young" Cc: "Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios" , "Josh Paetzel" , References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com> Subject: Re: firewall stuff Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:18:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Apr 2001 22:18:45.0824 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CCDCC00:01C0CC43] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Present impressions .... the OpenBSD installer (particularly disklabel) is > > an awful > mess... Look at 2.8... much nicer, er should I say much easier than previous versions. > The later releases I installed weren't all that bad. Actually > quite smooth. However, it (OpenBSD 2.8) which ran just fine on > the testbox, failed to run on the target machine. FreeBSD had no > such qualms. Haven't had one problem installing. Installed on x86 (home) and even tried out the sparc port on a old sparc 5 here at work. > Being on a deadline the choice was simple. The more so since, like you, > I had/have more hands-on experience with FreeBSD than with OpenBSD. Learn both ;o) > The reason I'd picked OpenBSD was indeed its focus on security. Whether > or not that is such a big deal in reality was a moot point. It made > for a great marketing USP ;). Having a focus on security and code audits are what make OpenBSD fun for me. I like having a secure setup out of the box per say. My only gripe with OpenBSD is it's lack of SMP, and no java 1.2 support. Guess I should donate that old P2B-DS with dual P2 300mhz's to Theo ;o) -Ben > Roelof > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message