On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 10:17, Roy Vestal wrote: > I'm wanting to learn BSD. I've been reading up on the 3 I understand to be > the "Big 3": OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD.
If functionality is your primary criteria (unless you need some nice QoS based routing capabilities), then stay with Linux. Nothing is being developed faster - and it can do just about anything a computing system (or phone system) needs to do. But if security (and High Availability) is your primary criteria, then OpenBSD is the flavor you want to try. I run Mandrake and OpenBSD on my networks: Mandrake for it functionality (and I like MSEC), and OpenBSD for Firewalling and Failover (CARP is really cool). I've played with the three main variants and long ago chose OpenBSD as my favorite. It's track record is the best in the industry for security and for it's response to any security issues. It's also not as big a leap from Linux as you might think. Here is an article that will take about 2 hours to read (if you follow the primary links) that covers most of the differences between Linux and BSD: Migrating to OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html ... And here is a primer on PF (the firewall application in OpenBSD): http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html Have fun Roy! Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
