On 5-Dec-06, at 9:43 AM, Montana Quiring wrote:
I've been playing with Solaris over the past year but I would like to get more experience with UNIX. There seems to be three (correct me if I'm wrong) main players in the BSD playing field. Can someone briefly give a semi-layman, semi-tech explaination of the differences between NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
From reading their web pages and googling they all seem to pride
themselves on security. I think it's NetBSD that prides its self on having the most portability and tightly written code, the downside being they are not the most current when it comes to supporting new hardware, etc. I'm looking to use a BSD to create a secure web server and maybe OpenLDAP as well. This would be for a production environment and not just tinkering. Xen compatability would also be a bonus. _______________________________________________
I have always considered them as....
NetBDB = portability (and support for my toaster) OpenBSB = Security FreeBSD = Performance (on x86 primarily)
But, FreeBSD is staying pretty current wrt security and they now have UltraSPARC SMP support which is pretty cool.
But in the end, if I need a server to be secure, I run OBSD.
shawn