Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : tenser
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 11:07:00

-=> tenser wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> I've told myself for years that I should learn one (or more) of the
 Ga> BSD's, but have never gotten around to it.  Maybe I'll bump that up on
 Ga> my TODO list a little.  Would you recommend trying OpenBSD first, or
 Ga> FreeBSD?  Related question - once you "know" one of them, is the other
 Ga> one easy/similar?

 te> I think it depends very much on what you want to do with
 te> the system.  OpenBSD is a lot closer to the "old school"
 te> BSD experience, a la 4.3 or SunOS 4.  It makes a reasonable
 te> server or firewall.  But if you're used to a more canned
 te> experience, it may be frustrating out of the box (in that
 te> sense, it's probably closer to, say, Arch Linux than to
 te> Mint).  Software in ports on OpenBSD tends to lag behind
 te> released versions by a good bit.

 te> On the other hand, FreeBSD also makes a fine server, but
 te> tends more toward the modern than OpenBSD; it's not too
 te> terribly hard to set it up as a workstation, I suspect.

 te> I've run both for many years; on edge devices and things
 te> exposed to the Internet I tend to run OpenBSD.  I run a
 te> FreeBSD server for kicks.  I use neither as a workstation
 te> anymore.

 te> So...what do you want to do with it?

Thank you for that excellent description of the differences.  At this 
point I don't really have anything in mind regarding what to do with 
it... other than just getting it running and becoming familiar with it.  
Perhaps a "homelab server" which would be not much more than a file 
storage repository.  I currently use Slackware Linux pretty much 
exclusively, other than a couple of RPi's running Raspbian.  Mostly this 
would be a learning/experiment/for-fun thing.  Thanks again for the 
info.



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