Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

From: Nico Meijer (nico.meijer_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 09/17/03

  • Next message: Viktor Lazlo: "Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?" 
    Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:07:39 +0200
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Hi Andy,

    Starting World War III, are you? ;-)

    > Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would
    > appear from both sites that xxxxBSD is a marvellous operating system,
    > very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc.

    microsoft.com would like you to believe they make a marvelous operating
    system, very secure, efficient and cost effective, with probably no
    mention of the name "Berkeley" whatsoever, even though {a number of,
    all?} versions of Windows contain Berkeley TCP/IP code if not the
    complete stack.

    I believe it has it's uses, btw, but that's for World War version IV.

    > Both are free and maintained by
    > really skilled technical people, etc, but what is the difference
    > between them, why would one use one in preference to the other?

    Use dmoz.org, Google and whatever rocks your boat, but it seems it
    usually boils down to something like this:

    - OpenBSD: security first, usability later; great number of platforms
    supported
    - FreeBSD: usability, stability and security take equal share
    - NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD", ie. portability

    Roughly, FreeBSD's mailing lists are friendlier than OpenBSD's, unless
    (and this can't be stressed enough methinks) you do your homework. So
    make sure you do it.

    I am hardly the person to comment on any of this, really, so I'll shut
    up now.

    Bye... Nico
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