From owner-freebsd-security Wed Dec 2 06:48:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29773 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29768 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22269; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:52:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36655402.179B7941@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 07:51:46 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jan B. Koum" CC: Paul Griffith , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: System recommendations (was Re: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD) References: <19981201162450.C10475@best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jan B. Koum" wrote: > > Off topic: your subject line is very inappropriate for Thank you for pointing this out. A more appropriate subject might have been "FreeBSD/OpenBSD comparison" or something of that nature. Let's not setup a fight where one isn't wanted. > this forum. I hope this thread will not turn into > yet another flame war or some such. I think (hope) we've moved beyond that, pretty much. > Do you really expect people here, on this list to say > "Use OpenBSD" or "Use Linux" or etc? Well, the former much more likely than the latter. For instance, if Paul had mentioned he needed to run this on a Mac or a SPARC, I think most here would've been happy to point out OpenBSD would meet his needs quite well. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message