From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 6: 0:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-exch05.jccc.net (ns-exch05.jccc.net [198.248.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147EB37B41B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by ns-exch05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:00:04 -0600 Message-ID: From: Noah Dunker To: 'Bill Schoolcraft' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: openbsd Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:00:04 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Bill Schoolcraft [mailto:bill@wiliweld.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:11 PM To: Noah Dunker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: openbsd > Now, correct me here when needed. Back when I started using (not > hacking) FreeBSD the version was 3.4 and it was a "slam_dunk" that > OpenBSD was the secure way to go. As my peers have already stated: Pretty Much. To lock down FreeBSD to the degree that OpenBSD is locked down by default is quite a bit of extra work, but it's very worth it. OpenBSD's out-of-box setup isn't quite paranoid enough for me in most cases. FreeBSD is way versatile though, in it's own way. I sit down with my laptop and I feel like I'm chilling with an old friend every time. The fit and finish of it's userland, little things that the core team has done to give it a nice, friendly feel, it's second to none. If Mercedes-Benz was in the OS Biz, I'm sure the result would be FreeBSD. :) The fact is, I CAN'T LEAVE AN OS ALONE AFTER I INSTALL IT!!! That's right, I have to play with it! So it really depends on what kind of things the computer will be doing, as to what I install on it. OpenBSD is not all that much different than FreeBSD, it just puts you at a different starting point for your project. I have been running FreeBSD since 2.2.8, but I haven't gotten 4.4 installed yet (4.3 is so good and stable I haven't felt the urge to upgrade, unlike some things I'm forced to use COUGHREDHACK7.1COUGH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message