[ale] OpenBSD, FreeBSD

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Dec 14 12:11:39 EST 1999


> I just purchased OpenBSD and FreeBSD, since Linux just doesn't cut it
> anymore I'm looking for a different flavour. From what I read OpenBSD is
> alot more secure. But does that make it slower ? and if it does how slow
> ?. FreeBSD is mostly used by ISP's I would assume that FreeBSD is faster
> or is it just more flexible ?

NetBSD seems to be the flavor of choice for doing Net-centric services. I
believe that ftp.cdrom.com is  running it and its got the record for hte
largest amount of ftp data transmitted in a 24 hour period.

I've heard good things about FreeBSD as well. 

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