[Gllug] BSD

[Ian Norton]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 12:13, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:00:26PM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    Can anyone please give a brief up-to-date comparison/explanation between
> > the three branches of BSD? All are available from the Demon ftp mirrors.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/
> 
> OpenBSD - primary concern is security.  Code is proactively audited to
> find and fix security problems in advance.  Great for firewalls and
> other systems that just have to be secure.
> 
> NetBSD - runs on lots of different architectures (far more even than
> Linux, I believe).  Never used this one.
> 
> FreeBSD - a good all-round BSD, mainly for Intel, but now also runs on
> Alpha, Sparc, Itanic and AMD64.  For a while I ran FreeBSD as my
> desktop machine (when I was working at Red Hat, heh heh ...) and it
> felt a lot faster than Linux.  This is apparently because they have a
> much more sensible scientific approach to developing VM, scheduling
> and disk code, rather than the "let's tweak it here and locally
> optimize it there and see what happens" approach used for Linux.
> 
> The lack of decent packaging systems (comparable to Apt) makes all
> BSDs a pain in the neck to maintain.

Debian/FreeBSD.

http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/gnu-libc-based

this looks like it might solve everyone's package gripes for bsd :-)

Ian


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