Openbsd

[cajunman4life]

Hey gang. Here's a run-down of the various OS' I have running on my home network:

 

FreeBSD

Debian (Etch)

Gentoo

Fedora Core 3

CentOS 4

(and, unfortunately :-P)

WinXP

 

Now, my DMZ box is currently running Debian (Etch), but recently my zeal in the BSD's has been renewed. This box first started as my primary webserver running FreeBSD, but has since moved on to being a DMZ server. I've been considering installing OpenBSD on it, and I was wondering, has anyone else in the (TCH) family used OpenBSD? What are your thoughts? Is it all that it's cracked up to be (which I'm sure it is)? Thanks guys. Oh yea, and if you've got a spare moment... tell me what your favorite OS is and why...

[TCH-Rob]

Last time I played with OpenBSD the hardware support was a bit lacking compared to FreeBSD. I am a big BSD fan though and I did like the fact that it is pretty well locked down by default.

[stevevan]

I've played with OpenBSD a few years ago when a few friends turned me onto the *nix side of things. Being a newbie at that time, it was kind of intimidating, but as Rob said, the security was darn good. In the course of things, I drifted over towards Linux. (Except for the work laptop which is running XP.)

[cajunman4life]

Last time I played with OpenBSD the hardware support was a bit lacking compared to FreeBSD.  I am a big BSD fan though and I did like the fact that it is pretty well locked down by default.

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I'm not too worried about the hardware support... my DMZ is a Pentium MMX 200MHz with 64MB RAM and a 2.1GB HD lol. I think it's old enough that most hardware should be supported. But I could be wrong... anywho, something I'll take into consideration.

[cajunman4life]

I've played with OpenBSD a few years ago when a few friends turned me onto the *nix side of things.  Being a newbie at that time, it was kind of intimidating, but as Rob said, the security was darn good.  In the course of things, I drifted over towards Linux.  (Except for the work laptop which is running XP.)

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I like Linux, but I (personally) prefer the BSD license/development model. I like the fact that all the BSD's include the entire "world" (ie it's not just a kernel, it's all the userland tools, etc). Of course, so do all the Linux distros... I just don't like when I go from one distro to another, and everything has changed (config/startup file locations, etc). That's just my personal rant lol.