[geeks] NetBSD/OpenBSD: practical differences

Joshua D. Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Jun 14 17:23:09 CDT 2001


Where can we see said comic book?

And why OpenBSD?  I thought you were a big iron guy.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> 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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