Re: [Spam] FreeBSD and OpenBSD differences?

[Christopher Ingram <cmi@crystalsands.net>]

A few short paragraphs on the BSDs: 
http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html

Look at the OpenBSD project goals (http://openbsd.org/goals.html) and 
compare with the breif FreeBSD project goals (http://www.freebsd.org/). 
FreeBSD mentions "cutting edge", "powerfull", "easy to install." 
(Remember that Windows is "cutting edge" and look what it gets its 
users...) To contrast OpenBSD mentions providing "the best development 
platform possible", "pay attention to security problems... (Try to be 
the #1 most secure operating system.", integrating crypto, implementing 
standards....

Wayne K9DI BSD Stuff wrote:
> 		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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