not ipcop?

Michael Havens bmike101 at cox.net
Sat Jan 19 19:58:05 MST 2008


well, it isn't really going to be use except as a mail server and a firewall 
but if you think I should stick with Linux I'll do that.

On Saturday 19 January 2008 7:35 am, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> BSD can read and write ext2 fine. Last I checked OpenBSD couldn't do
> ext3. But if you've got some temporary storage you can tar up the
> contents are untar them into the new place.
>
> OpenBSD is my personal preference. Many people do prefer others. I like
> OpenBSD because it's secure, pretty easy to understand once you get used
> to where the documentation is (the man pages & FAQ, not HOWTOs), and
> being that I'm a software developer I like the code better.
>
> Now that I've said all that, I have some concerns about you switching
> from Linux to OpenBSD for something critical. First, you've spent years
> learning and using Linux. Though Linux and *BSD are Unix-like there are
> differences. There's going to be a learning curve. While there are
> people here who can help (including me), we are fewer in number than the
> rest of the good people here.
>
> I'd feel a lot better if you had a machine you could try this on without
> it being something you need to have "in production" right away.


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