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FreeBSD or Loonix?

Magus

Thu Jun 6 19:15:18 2002

I'm going to bow to the inevitable, and attempt to increase my *nix knowledge. As it is, I have a spare box lying around, so what do you reccomend? Linux or FreeBSD?
PaulHill

Thu Jun 6 19:20:46 2002

I've got a soft spot for BSD, but fuck both of them. USe Cygwin
longmarch

Thu Jun 6 19:31:57 2002

FreeBSD: it's standard (no distro Hell), the installer works, and you can actually get paid to admin it (at least some people do).
HitScan

Thu Jun 6 19:35:19 2002

A more acurate question is FreeBSD or NetBSD?

Perhaps this shows my slant a bit. :D

I'm all about Net. And .NET, but that's for another time. :D :D

Magus

Thu Jun 6 20:47:08 2002

I admit I have been leaning more toward a BSD, if only because I don't see as many drooling fanatics for it. Hit, any major reasons for Net over Free?
HitScan

Thu Jun 6 21:09:21 2002

Well, no, other than I truely dig Net's portability and the way they do drivers. If you're just building a desktop on an x86, I'd go Free. It even has a native port of OpenOffice. (Check my post in the OS Server Security thread in the Stupid Place to see my view of the differences in BSDs.)

However, If I ever get Net running on my Dreamcast, and ever get my dialup server running, I'll be freaky mad cool. Or something. ;)

Magus

Thu Jun 6 22:14:22 2002

"The Linux of the BSD world", eh? That's enough to turn me against it... :biggrin:
HitScan

Thu Jun 6 22:28:58 2002

Well, perhaps I mean they're rather feature-hungry. :D

Or, if it knots your gut too much, use Net. I won't blame you. :D

Magus

Fri Jun 7 02:49:06 2002

Well, I've got the ISOs for NetBSD downloading now. More as it develops.
DeAthe

Fri Jun 7 11:30:35 2002

Paul's right, use Cygwin, it's nice.
Harbinger

Fri Jun 7 15:06:08 2002

I'm actually gonna try to get OpenBSD to make a firewall box.  For experience, mostly, but I imagine that this is something that will come in handy.

Sadly, you can't download an ISO so I'll have to find it locally or mail order it.

DrPizza

Fri Jun 7 17:24:45 2002

Fuck NetBSD and OpenBSD.

FreeBSD is all you need.

The ability to run on a toaster is of no value to man nor beast, which rules rules NetBSD out.

The ability to install with 'most everything turned off is not unique to OpenBSD anyway, and is its only "special" ability.

Jeremy Reimer

Fri Jun 7 17:28:30 2002

Actually, OpenBSD has some nifty built-in encryption stuff, and it's easy to set up a quickie firewall/NAT with it and be sure it's secure without having to manually go and turn everything off.

I like looking at our snort logs once in a while and laughing at the dozens of script-kiddie attacks that are bouncing off the firewall like flies off a foot-thick wall of transparent aluminum.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Fri Jun 7 18:50:52 2002

I like looking at our snort logs once in a while and laughing at the dozens of script-kiddie attacks that are bouncing off the firewall like flies off a foot-thick wall of transparent aluminum.

and who are these bungholes messing with my forum?

Magus

Fri Jun 7 18:54:49 2002

Fools who know not the power of the Mighty AYB.
esm007

Sat Jun 8 04:00:16 2002

from Jeremy Reimer posted at 12:28 pm on June 7, 2002

Actually, OpenBSD has some nifty built-in encryption stuff, and it's easy to set up a quickie firewall/NAT with it and be sure it's secure without having to manually go and turn everything off.

erm... and you can't do that with FreeBSD?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat Jun 8 10:19:30 2002

Fools who know not the power of the Mighty AYB.

Indeed.