Open Vs Free BSD

[Kip Macy]

freebsd-stable is not an advocacy list. This is very off-topic.





On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni<me at dbolgheroni.eng.br> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Holger Kipp wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:47:35AM +0100, Michal wrote:
>>
>> For the masses:
>>
>> - NetBSD: Run on any hardware (including toasters)
>> - OpenBSD: Be as secure as possible
>> - FreeBSD: provide best system for x86-platforms
>
> It's a mistake to make this association.
>
> OpenBSD people chose "security" as an argument to describe what the OS
> is. It's true and I believe it can attract more users, but on the other
> side, people seem to think OpenBSD is ONLY used when you need security,
> like a firewall, router, etc.
>
> OpenBSD is a GENERIC OS which can be used to do _almost_ every task a
> computer system is able to.
>
> Teers,
>
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> Daniel Bolgheroni <me at dbolgheroni.eng.br>
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