Re: Why OpenBSD?

["V. T. Mueller" <vtmue@uni-freiburg.de>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Richard Ray wrote:
> I've prepared myself to be flamed good and proper, but here it goes
> anyhow. I'm familiar with several *NIX's. Our workhorses here are HPUX
> and SunOS. I've fooled around with Slackware since the early 90's. Now
> I've installed my first *BSD, OBSD 2.7. I'd like to hear why your loyal
> to OBSD and pros and cons of the system. Maybe some things that will
> ease my transition.

"Loyalty" always reminds me on religious attitudes: "my OS is better
than yours"... but that's another story.

In my opinion it always boils down to which OS does your job best.
Then, of course there's a limit reg. how many different platforms you're
willing and able to support.

What I (dealing 90% with HP-UX) think so far is that OpenBSD does a very
good job as router/firewall and/or small dedicated server. If you don't
need SMP or features like logical volume manager, access control lists,
auditing etc. (were Linux folks *try* to get running what actually is
available for HP-UX, Solaris etc. for many years now), OpenBSD will do a
decent and reliable job for you.

0.02$ from my experience
Volker
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