On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:28, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > firewall/router, I'd pick OpenBSD. If you're looking for a > desktop, I can't help but agree with Mark: 5.1's desktop is among > the best I've seen, and that includes Linux desktops. OTOH, if > you'd just like to learn BSD, FreeBSD is probably a more robust > environment.
Actually, any of the three would make a good desktop. Freebsd just tends to update their packages more often. I think of Freebsd has the "RedHat" of the Freebsd world (please don't hurt me). The general rule is: Freebsd for the desktop or server, Openbsd for the single CPU server, and Netbsd for your toaster or PhD dissertation. Netbsd is really an academic OS; short of putting it on embedded hardware, it really isn't a good desktop system. The upshot with netbsd and openbsd is that a lot of cool features come out of them (ath a/g wireless is from netbsd, W^X stack security from openbsd). > I saw a post on a NG yesterday: > > "I want to put a free/open Unix on my spare Pentium II. I'm > trying to choose between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. > Opinions?" Nothing wrong with running Solaris on x86, though running it on an x86 PII is _very_ painful. Some people like mystery meat in their OS (i.e. closed source). Mark _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
