On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: >> I don't intend to start any BSD/Linux or anything vs anything flame. >> >> There is ample material on such comparison on the web some of which I >> have browsed through. >> >> If somebody has used any of the BSD systems (FreeBSD or NetBSD), I'd have >> just liked to know the experience with them, any significant advantages or >> pain areas felt etc. >> >> I am a largely command line user, never use any feature rich desktop >> manager. I use a regular x86 desktop computer / laptop. For such a usage >> profile and hardware, which flavor of BSD will be good to use? > [...] > > I use OpenBSD (and nothing else). Have been using it for about 4 yrs. > now, and it does everything what I want it to do. I know you don't > have it in the above list, but since it is a "secure sibling" of the > BSDs' you mention, I thought you may be interested. If you want to run > a "secure" machine, OpenBSD is for you. Some interesting features (I > am not going to bore you with common stuff, but things that make it > stand out): > * installs in 10 minutes flat on a standard laptop/desktop - most > painless install if you give it the entire disk. > * runs in "secure by default" mode, which enables only ssh, and > disables remote root logins (the ps ax listing occupies less than 1 > terminal page). [...]
Oh, and missed one very important point: * OpenBSD is not determined to dominate the world, and fast. -Amarendra _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List