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Possible New Base OS

Tivon Coles

Possible New Base OS
« on: December 09, 2003, 02:50:41 AM »
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to hear some feedback from some more advanced users, and give a little more information on the Choice of Distros.

In the forums earlier on last week I suggested the possible choice of a BSD based system as apposed to Linux. Being either OpenBSD(http://www.openbsd.org) who have the claim "Only one remote hole

in the default install, in more than 7 years!" and FreeBSD(http://www.freebsd.org) which also looks extremely secure and functional.
BSD seems to have a higher standard of security.
here are a few interesting pages
http://www.freebsd.org/features.html
http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html
http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/gallery.html

I know debian is the strongest linux candidate at the moment as it is similar to Redhat. There where some suggestions of http://whiteboxlinux.org which i think would be a rather risky move...

its currently on its 2nd release and only started in November. It sounds like a pet project with no guarantee that it will be running in 12 months or more.

Arkman

Re: Possible New Base OS
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2003, 05:04:11 AM »
Tivon,
 FYI..Cross-posting is usually frowned upon. Just post to one forum so that all the info is in one place.
 This issue is actively bieng discussed on the dev mailing list so you might want to check that out for more info, or to contribute.

--Noah