OpenBSD or..

Matt Alexander plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:23:24 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, James Mabry wrote:

> I only really ever hear about FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Has anyone had any
> experience with NetBSD? Granted they are all pretty similar, I would
> like some opinions if any on NetBSD. I will talk to people online now
> and again that swear by it, and think it is the clear choice of the
> three. I'm just not sure why? I've also heard it been called the most
> secure of the three even though that seems to be OpenBSD's main draw. I
> don't want to start a distro war :) or anything I just was curious about
> the advantages NetBSD has (other than the fact that it will run on your
> toaster).

NetBSD's claim to fame is that it will run on anything.  I used to work
with one of the NetBSD kernel developers and his personal goal in life was
to simply run NetBSD everywhere possible.