[geeks] NetBSD/OpenBSD: practical differences

geeks at sunhelp.org geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Jun 14 15:57:20 CDT 2001


airboss at nodewarrior.org writes:

>Folks, I'm torn. I've been using NetBSD for a long, long time on various
>architectures. I use OpenBSD for the standard uses one has for it:
>firewalls, IPSEC machines, etc.

>But I keep looking over at it and thinking "Hm. If OpenBSD is basically
>NetBSD with security auditing, what the hell am I doing still using NetBSD
>for general-purpose UNIX computing?". (And here by "general-purpose UNIX
>computing" I mean workstation, webserver, DNS server, shell box, number
>cruncher, etc.)

I used an openbsd system to write my last comic book.

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --



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