FreeBSD Status Report March-April 2004 63
Anonymous Coward writes "The FreeBSD project has posted a new status report
for March and April of 2004. Work continues on locking down the network
stack, ACPI made more great strides, an ARM port appeared in the tree,
and the FreeBSD 4.10 release cycle wrapped up."
An ARM port eh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:PF and ALTQ (Score:5, Insightful)
FreeBSD is something i'd put on a critical nfs/http/ftp server or something
OpenBSD is something I'd put on a Pentium 200Mhz box to keep that nfs/http/ftp box safe.
Nothing prevents you from doing either one with either operating system. It's just about preference
Re:Good Work! (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:PF and ALTQ (Score:2, Insightful)
I think the advantages of FreeBSD are drivers ( for newer toys ), speed, and that jail thing ( which I have not actually used ) which AFAIK lets you run a virtual machine chroot thing. Also, freebsd ( and netbsd ) have automagical update the ports/packages tools and things. On openbsd you need to pkg_delete them yourself.
Other than that, I think OpenBSD is the ticket. Lots of people seem to think OpenBsd is only a firewall OS... which is unfortunate. OpenBSD works fine as a standard server ( eg, web, dns, mail, ftp, samba, etc ). The security effort which goes into obsd is also a deeper than just things disabled by default, too.