[ale] OpenBSD, FreeBSD

[reeves at earthling.net (J. Reeves Hall)]

jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:

> 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 ?

OpenBSD is indeed more secure, but that does not mean that FreeBSD is insecure.
FreeBSD is probably the best Unix for x86 machines; it only runs on the x86 and
the Alpha, so that's where they spend all their development time. FreeBSD and
OpenBSD are both excellent projects and I don't think you can go wrong.

The reason I've never tried OpenBSD is that it doesn't support SMP. FreeBSD does
it extremely well.

-Reeves


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