[ale] Newbie Greg's Question of the Day - Smoothwall vs OpenBSD

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph Andrew Knapka)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:   scott at smnolde.com [mailto:scott at smnolde.com]
> Sent:   Saturday, August 11, 2001 7:50 PM
> To:     Greg
> Subject:        Re: [ale] Newbie Greg's Question of the Day - Smoothwall vs OpenBSD
> 
> Greg,
> 
> For a firewall and web server, nothing beats FreeBSD.  Linux has it's
> great points, but for stability under heavy load, FreeBSD is it.
> Installing FreeBSD is simpler than OpenBSD and nothing beats the ports
> collection for installing and updating software.

OpenBSD has a ports collection that is functionally very similar,
if not identical, to FreeBSD's. And personally I found OpenBSD's
installation somewhat more straightforward than FreeBSD's (the
FreeBSD installer keeps trying to install stuff it erroneously
thinks I want). But YMMV.

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