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  From: Nick Morrison <nickm@ior.org.au>
  To  : John" <john@fiend.securesys.com.au>, "Tim Ansell <john@fiend.securesys.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:36:20 +0930

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux

Is there a place I can buy or burn a cd with Open/Free/??? BSD?  I'm hungry
for new OS's, but only have a 33.6k modem :(

I'm not getting involved in this imminent flamewar without having some BSD
experience first :P


> > I have heard that FreeBSD was better as a firewall and was wondering if
> > i could have a look at some comparisons.
>
> 	BSD's ipfw setup is way more explicit than Linux's. (Be warned,
> 	trying to set up a firewall under *BSD tests your networking
> 	knowledge: do I *really* know what I want? :)
>
> > I know that KDE and gnome both work on Linux do they work on FreeBSD,
> > also what about package management?
>
> 	pkg_add etc
>
> 	But forget FreeBSD. Try OpenBSD. Canadian-based, it comes with
> 	complete (over the top) crypto., and audited code. It removes
> 	much of the security headf**k out of putting a machine on the net
> 	(something which Linux in general seems to fall behind with...).
> 	And it runs on just about every h/w platform there ever was....
>
> J.
>
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