On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:11:19AM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:46:40AM +1200, Dave Lilley wrote: > > Hi there folks, > > Anyone played or using OpenBSD ?? > > What's your opinion of it ??? > > I have an OpenBSD 3.3 boot cd (and floppy) if you wanted to borrow it. > > IMHO, the system is well suited to a BSD-aware administrator (I co-admin > a set of FreeBSD boxen in the UK), who wants to know the setup is more > secure than flexible, and will be running stable, standard services. > > It's not really a base for experimenting with the bleeding edge :-) and > isn't really a desktop system, either.
Why not? OpenBSD makes a better desktop system than Debian, I've found - much more current with KDE, Gnome, et cetera. > If you want to achieve security of your data, use a live CD with > portable storage (like Knoppix with a USB drive). > > If you want to have a stable, safe server, OpenBSD is worth considering. > The trust level I'd ascribe to the distribution management of OpenBSD is > extremely high, based on past experience. > > *BSD is excellent for servers, moreso than Linux which is very well > suited to an active administrator. BSD admins are much more laid back > :-) and they always know who has tested their software first. > NetBSD is great for high-network-traffic machines. FreeBSD is almost as > flexible as a Linux, and "more stable" in a qualitative way. OpenBSD > sacrifices current features for an intelligent code review, leading to a > lower need for security updates. What's not current about OpenBSD's features? It's a bit sparse on hardware support - but I don't have any issues other than the lack of PCI DSL support, which is marginal at best on Linux, anyway. Ben.
