Hello Douglas, Am 2008-05-03 21:32:48, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > What software do these workstations use? The reason I ask is that there > is a market segment (including reportedly Yahoo! internally) that runs > OpenBSD on workstations for the combined security and 6-month release > cycle. There aren't many security patches that come out in those 6 > months for the base system (which itself is fairly complete) and many > security bugs in third-party apps (packages) which affect other distros > don't affect OBSD due to the changes to gcc which they made. If all you > need is a simple UNIX with X (OBSD comes with a simple wm) and you just > want to add a fancy wm and Firefox, then OBSD may be great for you. > > If, however, these workstations are e.g. graphic-design workstations > that require a lot of third-party apps or non-free graphics drivers, > then OBSD either may not work at all, or be less easy to maintain than a > debian box, since fixes are source patches. You'd have to patch on one > box (or a dedicated build machine), make a new package, and then install > it on all the boxes. I've never needed to do it, but it is all almost > automated. Installing the packages is very much like apt-get. ------------------------ END OF REPLIED MESSAGE ------------------------
I am using NetBSD since ages (longer then Debian) and I can confirm, if someone need only a BASIC Workstation, she/he could go with ANY BSD derivates but there is only a problem with hardware support which work heavyly better in Linux as on any BSD derivates... And of course, you can get a nice X workstation (including Mozilla) on NetBSD for less then 256 MByte CF-Card... which is definitivly not possibel in Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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