Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 21:28:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Owen Barnett <rainking@shell.futuresouth.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990109212815.B1743@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990108230358.A19973@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:03:58PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990109004842.2126A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <19990108230358.A19973@best.com>
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On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 23:03:58 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:52:09AM -0600, Owen Barnett <rainking@shell.futuresouth.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I've been using FreeBSD now for a few months, but have recently read a >> little about OpenBSD. All the sources I've read seem to indicate OpenBSD >> as superior in security issues and FreeBSD in performance issues and >> perhaps "friendliness" - I was wondering, if anyone has had experience >> with both, what are the tradeoffs between each system? > > FreeBSD is as secure as OpenBSD. One can argue it is even > more secure as OpenBSD was the last OS out of the two to have > local 'get root' type vulnerability. Security also depends a > lot on the admin of the system. I think this is rather a blanket statement. OpenBSD has a stated aim of being particularly secure. I can't say whether they come closer to this goal than FreeBSD, but you can't put them down on the basis of a single datum. > But you are right - FreeBSD wins in the performance area > no questions asked. I disagree. I would ask questions, or at least answer implied questions. There's been enough unpleasantness between the *BSDs in the past; we don't want to start that again with a number of unqualified statements, even if they should be correct. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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