Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:01:31 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org (dannyman) Cc: perl@netmug.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD??? Message-ID: <199803011601.LAA02603@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980301004043.61532@urh.uiuc.edu> from dannyman at "Mar 1, 98 00:40:43 am"
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dannyman said: > On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 04:44:50PM -0800, Michael Haro wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering how OpenBSD and FreeBSD differ. > > In a nutshell; > > OpenBSD is more secure, and has more support for different platforms, whereas > FreeBSD is much better suited to your average Joe trying to run a system on > an Intel box without too much challenge. > FreeBSD generally has significantly higher performance when under stress also. Also, there is now (finally) an active Alpha port, with code being committed to the tree, and a funded Ultra-sparc effort. Other architectures appear to be funded also (not public info yet.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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