You'll struggle to find a proper apples-to-apples test to prove/disprove those statements, but commonly held BSD Lore states:
FreeBSD offers the best performance, and it supports the most software. It's commonly used for web or file servers and desktops. Also, FreeBSD is more actively developed than the others. OpenBSD focuses on security. It runs on more platforms than FreeBSD, but less than NetBSD. Since security is the primary goal, it's excellent for routers and secure-by-default servers. Popular desktop applications like Mozilla and OpenOffice are supported, but don't expect every other Linux/UNIX program to work. NetBSD runs on just about anything. That's it's primary goal. Since I don't have any weird hardware, I've never had a use for NetBSD. Kim Attree IT Manager Playsafe South Africa -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michal Sent: 19 June 2009 10:48 AM To: misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Subject: Open Vs Free BSD Someone once said this too me "Comparing FreeBSD and OpenBSD, FreeBSD is generally better at disk-related I/O whereas OpenBSD handles net-I/O better. No test has been carried out to prove this though." Every offence to the person which said this, but they are not the best admin ever, though they like to think they are (the worst kind I think) Can anyone shed any light, the reason I ask is we where debating about a network and he said OpenBSD on the network (routers firewall etc) and FreeBSD as the app servers (mail, files etc etc), which I can see makes sense.but without having evidence it's pointless making a claim. Thanks :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
