Hi all,
I am a newbie for BSD, I already have linux installed and I was thinking of installing BSD, but I am confused since I dont know which one is better FreeBSD or openBSD. Can anyone please explain me, whats the difference between 2 and which one is better.
Thanx
--AV
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I dunno, I have found that any newbie can learn how to use /stand/sysinstall on FreeBSD...
Of course if you want to be daring: http://ekkobsd.org/ is a new FreeBSD fork that is aiming for simplicity and ease of use.
Ryan
'Better' is mostly personal opinion, but it partly depends on what you are planning to do.
For an overview, look at the Article "The BSD Family Tree" by James Howard (On Daemon News: http://www.daemonnews.org/
Additionaly, look at the OpenBSD Project Goals (http://www.openbsd.org/go
Choose whichever suits you best.
Regards,
Roland
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by: gheistPosted on 2004-01-15 at 22:48:07ID: 10127563
For learning purposes I guess OpenBSD is better due to complete&accurate documentation. Once you learn OpenBSD, you do not lose anything - you seamlesly teach yourself FreeBSD too.
Significant about OpenBSD is it's default security, which means you cannot run a service without reading what it does and how to make it permanent.
WLAN and IPSEC suppot (if you need those)
Good firewall called pf, which can be run on network switch emulator (NetBSD has something syntactically alike, but without bridge support, called ipf, ipf is available for FreeBSD too.)
On the other hand FreeBSD will have many plusses too:
Easier install partition editor (OpenBSD has CHS editor, FreeBSD has almost automatic partitioner)
Pseudo-graphical configurator. (You can have linuxconf on any bsd, something pseudo-graphical is available on NetBSD too)
SMP support. ACPI support (if you need those, NetBSD has some SMP support)
More desktop applications in ported collection and as packages.
Modular kernel, which may help you develop driver for random piece of hardware.
If you move away from i386 compatibles, manufacturers UNIX is the best, NetBSD or OpenBSD will perform a bit better than FreeBSD.
So - my suggestion - you start with OpenBSD, if you cannot get past partition editor, try FreeBSD :-)