so after OS wars, no come the "flavours wars"...
At 09:26 28/11/00 -0700, Bruce Bauer wrote:
>My opinion: Don't!
Mine: DO!
>Use OpenBSD instead. www.openbsd.org
stay with Free
>But wait for December 1st. (Version 2.8 release date)
and do it right now:)
>Reasons:
>Much easier to configure.
Imy opinion is the opposite. among the 4 flavours (BSDi, NetBSD,
FreeBSD and OpenBSD), Free is the easier to configure and use.
but after all, NT is even easier:)
>Secure by default.
Free is not bad!
>Built in ftp proxy.
ipfilter is enough for most of us.
the few who need a proxy can consider the FWTK one.
>Built in firewall.
ipfilter comes in standard in FreeBSD.
I don't see what more is built into openBSD...
>Also much easier to configure.
you already said that
>Excellent man pages.
???
I've never been deceived by those in Free...
>Wonderful mailing list support.
last times we've seen someone asking here was just after being flamed
on the OB ML. I understood that he switched to FreeBSD.
>Doesn't need expensive hardware.
Which is true for all the BSD's
>Did I mention it's easier to configure?
since you insist, I'll talk about it.
among the 4 flavours (BSDi, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD), FreeBSD is the
easy one.
>Reasons not to:
>Using same system for running other (non-server type)
>applications.
which is the case of most systems!
>You can't run a system without X. (Yes X runs on OBSD, but
>why?)
you can run a FreeBSD without running X, and without even installing it.
I'd be tempted to believe that this is true for Open also, so I don't see
what you mean.
well, such debate will drive us nowhere. all the BSD flavours are cool,
good and
choosing one is much of a personnal question.
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