Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:00:04 -0600 From: Noah Dunker <ndunker@jccc.net> To: 'Bill Schoolcraft' <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: openbsd Message-ID: <C18E28011272D41180AD00B0D0496C0808EB50D0@ns-exch05>
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-----Original Message----- From: Bill Schoolcraft [mailto:bill@wiliweld.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:11 PM To: Noah Dunker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: openbsd > Now, correct me here when needed. Back when I started using (not > hacking) FreeBSD the version was 3.4 and it was a "slam_dunk" that > OpenBSD was the secure way to go. As my peers have already stated: Pretty Much. To lock down FreeBSD to the degree that OpenBSD is locked down by default is quite a bit of extra work, but it's very worth it. OpenBSD's out-of-box setup isn't quite paranoid enough for me in most cases. FreeBSD is way versatile though, in it's own way. I sit down with my laptop and I feel like I'm chilling with an old friend every time. The fit and finish of it's userland, little things that the core team has done to give it a nice, friendly feel, it's second to none. If Mercedes-Benz was in the OS Biz, I'm sure the result would be FreeBSD. :) The fact is, I CAN'T LEAVE AN OS ALONE AFTER I INSTALL IT!!! That's right, I have to play with it! So it really depends on what kind of things the computer will be doing, as to what I install on it. OpenBSD is not all that much different than FreeBSD, it just puts you at a different starting point for your project. I have been running FreeBSD since 2.2.8, but I haven't gotten 4.4 installed yet (4.3 is so good and stable I haven't felt the urge to upgrade, unlike some things I'm forced to use COUGHREDHACK7.1COUGH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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