On Saturday 09 February 2002 23:27, Hoyt Duff wrote: > Are there any benefits to using the BSD kernel rather than the Linux > kernel? If so, is it something Mandrake should consider?
Yes, improved security at the cost of some device support and performance (e.g. SMP ain't so hot on OpenBSD). Probably not enough of an advantage for Mandrake to change (or even add) to a standard distro. A firewall-specific distro might be a different question. Cheers; Leon
