On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:11:05AM +0000, David Freeman scribbled:
Web server of anything outside of a firewall == OpenBSD
Even Linux has security-orientated code audits performed on it now. So how is it more secure/a better choice?
It's hellishly slow on most low spec stuff that you would normally love to use as a dedicated firewall/small webserver. A p100 with 8 megs of ram crawls under openbsd. The task scheduler pretty crappy. The same box flies under NetBSD. Oh, and NetBSD runs under about 44 architectures.
<AOL> /me too, </AOL>
Some of the tests I have seen done would recommend using something with a linux kernel flavour greater than 2.4 as the tcp/ip stack has been turbocharged by around 30% since the 2.2 kernels. OpenBSD was quite a bit slower doing webserving.
Adam