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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: not ipcop?
will I be able to retain my linux home directory on bsd?
In addition I'm thinking it should be used to store the email I wish to retain
(that's a server?).
so you are thinking openbsd. why not free or college or any of the other
incarnations?

On Friday 18 January 2008 8:35 am, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> OpenBSD for a firewall makes all kinds of sense. It's incredibly secure,
> right out of the box. It comes standard with many network daemons that
> are very useful. Really, the security and networking stuff that comes
> standard with OpenBSD make it difficult to beat. You can do a default
> install and leave it on the internet and go on vacation and come back to
> an uncompromised box. It's also fairly lean, so it'll run fine on old
> hardware.
>
> The only reason I didn't recommend it before on this thread is that
> you're all familiar with Linux, and administering/securing/maintaining
> an OS you know well is better than borking up something you're not
> familiar with.
>
> If you're looking for a point&click or web-config firewall then don't
> bother with OpenBSD. If you don't mind the command line, editing config
> files in a text editor, etc., then OpenBSD makes a *wonderful* edge box.
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:43:50AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> > BSD? WHy would you recomend that over Clark Connect?
> >

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