On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:00:28 +0100 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
Why OpenBSD? It doesn't even have a mature firewalling system at the momement, let alone an easy to use isakmp daemon. Oh, and they've also dropped qmail, djbdns, publicfile, as well as ipf.
Security, lack of wholes.
Even Linux has security-orientated code audits performed on it now. So how is it more secure/a better choice?
I wan't aware that Linux had audits like this. Maybe Linux would be 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.
But how well audited is netBSD? how many wholes are there in it?
Thanks
D
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