FreeBSD or OpenBSD

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 19:01:43 -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
> On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:47 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
>> I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10
>> and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use
>> it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD
>> 3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything other
>> then a firewall on OpenBSD.
>>
>> I'm thinking about using OpenBSD on more servers. Before I do that I
>> would like to know what people on the list think.
>
> Asking such a question makes you sound a little limp-wristed, frankly.
>
> Here's how you should decide: Go to the OpenBSD mailing list
> archives, select 25 or so threads at random, and read them. Do the
> same for the FreeBSD mailling list archives. Then, make your
> decision. And remember, it's not like getting married - you can
> change your mind anytime you like.

To be fair, this isn't a reasonable way of doing things.  What you're
saying, I think, is that the tone on the OpenBSD mailing lists is a
bit rough.  That has very little to do with the relative merits of the
system, however.  The OpenBSD people are proud of being
uncompromising.

What would I recommend?  Any BSD.  DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and
OpenBSD (in alphabetical order, in case anybody wants to interpret it)
are all excellent, reliable, secure, high performance systems.  There
are differences, but I'd only change from one to another with a good,
specific reason.

Greg
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