From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 6:12:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.94.6.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A0A37B42C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18401; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:09:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3AE6CC0F.3133BB70@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:07:27 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dougy@bryden.apana.org.au Cc: questions@freebsd.org, roelof@nisser.com, gustavo@ifour.com.br, jpaetzel@hutchtel.net Subject: Re: firewall stuff References: <00d301c0cb87$0dee2bf0$0400a8c0@oracle> <01042222580500.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> <3AE386CC.608B59B4@ifour.com.br> <020d01c0cbba$e03047f0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE4A6C4.3B96B701@nisser.com> <04eb01c0cc43$b8b79cd0$0400a8c0@oracle> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young wrote: > > > You should've seen the earlier ones! Whoo, wheee!! They actually > > had you calculating cylinders and sectors. That really took me > > back. Hadn't done that since 1987 or so. Great! > > > Every OpenBSD install I've done gave weird complaints about unallocated > sectors (immediately after disklabel) whereas the FreeBSD installs have > invariably been very straightforward. Mind you the OpenBSD man pages > are a huge improvement on the FreeBSD ones. Dunno what sort of person > dreamed up their mailing list though .... I don't believe its humanly > possible > to create something so disorganized !!!!!!!! Thankfully the FreeBSD archives > are quite well organized & easily searchable. > > > The reason I'd picked OpenBSD was indeed its focus on security. Whether > > or not that is such a big deal in reality was a moot point. It made > > for a great marketing USP ;). > > > Yeah ... thats what attracted me too, although general feedback on the > subject > indicates that its possibly overrated. Its not that my systems hold > particularly > valuable data, all I want to achieve is blocking as many evil types as > possible. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message There's a big reason I use OpenBSD over freebsd; one that neither of you seemed to touch on. Hardware platform support, I run OpenBSD on Apple Macintosh, Sun Sparc, and HP 9000 boxes. Doing this with FreeBSD just isn't possible (yet... I know various ports have been started), however when it comes to the i386 platform I run FreeBSD pretty much exclusively. Primarily for the reasons indicated in your emails: ease of use, ports collection, email/list support. Well, that's my two cents. Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message