Subj : *BSD
To   : Roy Tellason
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Jun 15 2001 02:30 pm

Hi Roy,

Something from a FreeBSD list I subscribe to


We have been working on NetBSD, with a little OpenBSD experience as well,
for a couple of years. Do yourself a favour: get a box up and running and
give it a look! Okay, let me try and be brief and unbiased about the 3:

FreeBSD: of the 3, this is the most supported and used, if you are on an
i386 platform. It has the most up to date software packages available,
good hardware support, and good docs and helpful people out there.

OpenBSD: this is the security focused BSD. It has fewer software updates
and packages available, but all O/S code is audited so that it will be
secure. We have also found the network capability to be very good, and
have a whole stack of OpenBSD gateways that are doing IP filtering, NAT,
ppp, and VPN all over the place. Also good documentation and helpful
people here.

NetBSD: this is the O/S that our company lives in! One word: portability.
It runs on something like 42 different platforms, from mainframes to PDAs
to Sega Dreamcast Gameboxes! The packages and software are a little behind
FreeBSD, so you are likely to have to fight with it a bit more, but once
again friendly helpful people. We write software for different platforms,
and NetBSD is a dream: one set of source code, many different platforms
running it!

Hope that helps a bit: give me a shout if you want to know anything
more....

Cheers
 Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-clug-tech@clug.org.za [mailto:owner-clug-tech@clug.org.za]On
Behalf Of Duncan Forrest Sent: 14 June 2001 10:49 To:
clug-tech@clug.org.za Subject: [CLUG-Tech] Flavours of BSD


Hi

Having remained Linux-bound for a couple of years, I'm thinking of
playing with BSD on spare box I have lurking.  I realise this may be
opening a whole can of worms, but do any of you have strong views on
which of the (Net/Open/Free/Whatever) flavours of BSD is best or, if
not best, at least most familiar for someone with Linux experience?
Alternatively, pointers to an unbiased (is there ever such a thing?)
comparison on the Web might help.

Regards,
Duncan



Russell

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