FreeBSD and OpenBSD differences?

[Wayne K9DI BSD Stuff <k9bsd@k9di.org>]

		Hi Gang,
	Wayne K9DI es Leader Dog Patriot here.  [yes, I'm visually 
impaired (95% blind) and am working with my 2nd dog guide]
	I hate to sound ignorant, and I'm not here to start a flame war.  
However, I'd like to know the main differences between OpenBSD and FreeBSD.  
Will FreeBSD tarballs work on OpenBSD and vice versa?  I've read the 
About pages on both sites, now I'd like to get a view from the people 
that actually use the OS's.
	I'm a relatively new Linux convert. I started tinkering with OSS and 
Linux in the fall of 1999, but spent most of my time mired in the gui. I 
have spent the last six months, 99.99% of computing time in CLI, (dual booting
Debian and Win2K on main machine) and running the IPCOP distro on my 
firewall/router.  I ran Debian on my laptop when I was attending Leader 
Dogs in August, and used it to dial-up then ssh into my home machine to 
do email and IM's saved having to fuss with setting up email on the 
laptop.  BTW: Of the students and staff dialing up I was the only one 
that didn't get clobbered when that nasty worm appeared...:) I got to do 
some ad-hoc OSS advocacy!! 
	My wife freely admits that one of the reasons she married me was so 
she'd have an in-house IT department....:)  So I have to constantly strive to 
learn about new things and issues to keep the job...J/K....:)
	What got me started looking at the BSD's was I'd heard that they were 
powerful, stable and secure platforms from which to do routing and firewalling,
and the BSD's came highly reccomended from the tech's at my ISP (they 
run all servers on oBSD).  I'm willing to learn, but it might take a 
while for stuff to sink in.     
	Please, if you have nothing constructive to share leave your 
flamethrowers off.  Flaming does no one any good.
73
de
Wayne K9DI
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