[Sheflug] Re: BSD

[Richard <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OpenBSD is not really geared up to drivers for fancy graphics cards and 
> it's not something I'd consider running X on. Great for firewall, not so 
> great for desktop, imho.


The whole design philosophy is to prevent you from doing anything 
but command line and even that's difficult.  ISDN ?  Forget it.  Only 
on the 2.4 or 2.8 versions.
 
> NetBSD I haven't used, I don't like the install script, possibly the 
> most unfriendly I've used.


Simplest BSD installation system I've seen.  Nice packaging system.  
It's where OpenBSD came from before Theo de Raadt moved over to an 
Open version with it's severe code auditing methods.

Used by NASA.  You can run NetBSD on just about any old hardware 
including the VAX machines that I used to work next to at British 
Steel before it became something else.
 

-- 
Richard
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