[CS-FSLUG] BSD-questions

[Frank Bax]

At 09:45 AM 6/21/04, Ed Hurst wrote:
>I found that the Linux version of OO.o ran faster on BSD than the BSD version
>did. On occasion, BSD will run an Linux app faster on the same machine
>than any Linux distro will.

I hadn't heard of this before - interesting!

>FreeBSD gets more attention in the multi-media area. NetBSD is aimed at
>maximum spread on multiple hardware platforms, and suffers a bit in
>other areas. OpenBSD is secure in the extreme, and that is it's focus.

In case anyone's interested, OpenBSD currently seems to be focused on 
running daemons/services with their own chroot'd account.  If a 
vulnerability is found and exploited, damage is contained to that 
service.  Each of the last several releases introduced new accounts/groups.

It was interesting to read that OpenBSD developers have found "a number of 
serious security problems in apache that we have fixed, and that have been 
offered them back, and they refused".
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0406/msg00448.html

Frank