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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.

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