freebsd vs. netbsd

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 2020-06-08 09:29, Donald Wilde wrote:
> On 6/8/20, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2020, at 11:26 PM, Anatoli <me at anatoli.ws> wrote:
>>>
>>> IMO
>>>
>>> * FreeBSD: servers (performance, stability, relative security, zfs),
>>>   competes directly with Linux
>>>
>>> * OpenBSD: routers/firewalls, desktops (the most secure OS
>>
>> The most secure… if you dismiss the fact that one of the developer (who
>> wrote network stack if my memory serves me) was simultaneously receiving
>> payments from one of three letter agencies for several years.
>>
> The OpenBSD crew made major contributions to the FOSS community in SSH
> and SSH components, but everybody incorporates them so they are now
> all at the same level.

This is absolute truth for me and I appreciate that fact since forever.

Valeri

> 
> The main remaining difference is that OpenBSD doesn't turn on
> _anything_ unless you specifically ask it to.
> 

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