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What is the difference between freebsd and openbsd?
by lyndz on Sat May 13, 2006 10:16 am
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by krod on Sat May 13, 2006 11:02 am
OpenBSD stresses security by default,
FreeBSD is more user and desktop friendly.
FreeBSD is more user and desktop friendly.
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FreeBSD/OpenBSD
by lyndz on Tue May 16, 2006 1:37 am
krod wrote:OpenBSD stresses security by default,
FreeBSD is more user and desktop friendly.
oic...thank you for the info...
OpenBSD said: FREE, Functional and Secure... are they really secure?
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Re: FreeBSD/OpenBSD
by Rommaster on Tue May 16, 2006 12:30 pm
lyndz wrote:krod wrote:OpenBSD stresses security by default,
FreeBSD is more user and desktop friendly.
oic...thank you for the info...
OpenBSD said: FREE, Functional and Secure... are they really secure?
krod wrote:OpenBSD stresses security by default
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by Tavy on Tue May 16, 2006 12:43 pm
OpenBSD is the security-nuts dream come true, but that's about it. It is NOT made for a desktop or anything like that. Whilst FreeBSD is made to be a flexible system to do everything just about, and it does so quite well.
OpenBSD is also alot harder to install then freebsd.. last time I knew..
OpenBSD is also alot harder to install then freebsd.. last time I knew..
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by tronics on Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:32 am
OpenBSD is great for running in server mode, not much for a desktop client. Although many use it for a desktop. It's install package documentation has matured very well over the past couple of years. My hats off to the BSD community.
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by markgrif on Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:14 pm
I have thought about trying out a bsd on my Thinkpad R31. Do they have good laptop support? Would it be as easy to install as Ubuntu Linux was. Most likely not. I just like messin' 'round with OSes. 
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by callihn on Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:29 pm
krod wrote:OpenBSD stresses security by default,
FreeBSD is more user and desktop friendly.
Agreeing with that and adding some other factual bits.
Hotmail.com once ran on FreeBSD and has never ran on OpenBSD.
It was much faster then
FreeBSD has deamon for a mascot while OpenBSD has puffy.
OpenBSD does not offer official ISO images for free download while FreeBSD does.
The last probably being most important to those short on funds when it comes to security.
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