Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:43:44 +0100 From: Gilbert Fernandes <gilbert.fernandes@spamcop.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Q: freeBSD vs openBSD Message-ID: <20051127224344.3xdggk4o8g8gkkgs@webmail.spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051127082223.00bfe648@sixcompanies.com> References: <1133075271.632.158.camel@swayam.transcontinental.co.in> <20051127115344.D77913@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051127141427.GA17937@flame.pc> <6.2.5.6.2.20051127082223.00bfe648@sixcompanies.com>
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> it seems the OpenBSD group doesn't actually like questions. You can > get flamed for the best worded question. Under FreeBSD, the > community is more open to ideas and people trying things. But we have to admit they do know how to properly flame someone. I mean, we never heard the rosted ash remains ask further questions upon the end of its flamming right ? ;) I have started with OpenBSD. I was coming from Red Hat 6.2 and to my shame, I didn't knew at that time that the BSD did exist. The very same day I discovered that BSD were free, and that I was indeed running one. I'll never forget that day even watching the prompt and realizing that. I spend a few years there and then moved to NetBSD. I love it. Very clean sources, and the only thing I do miss on NetBSD from OpenBSD is the patch file. On OpenBSD you can install the sources from .tgz and very easily keep with you a very small file with patches, and the first lines are comments which explain what to do. So once you have sources on a machine and the tiny patch file with you, you don't need Internet access to patch a server (which is nice for servers not directly linked to Internet). After some years under NetBSD I am now using FreeBSD. It's nice and I spent some time exploring all the sysctl available stuff to play with and it might only be a "feel" but it looks like it's "fast". Well, that's the first impression I got from it. Best advice would probably to try each of the BSD (and the other variants since it's not only Open, Net or Free) and you'll stick to one for obscure reasons only bipedal humans would know but not understand nor be able to explain to other of their kind. -- unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; fsck ; umount ; sleep
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