| [News] OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Oct-2003 10:53 GMT by Christian Kemp | 15 comments
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From Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck: OpenBSD has been successfully ported to the Pegasos by Dale Rahn. The Pegasos OpenBSD distro will be available for download later this month to all Pegasos owners.
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| Comment 1 | DET Nicolas | | 14-Oct-2003 09:04 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Matt Parsons | | 14-Oct-2003 09:17 GMT |
| Comment 3 | opi | | 14-Oct-2003 09:44 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez | | 14-Oct-2003 12:05 GMT |
| Comment 5 | IamCleverOne | | 14-Oct-2003 12:31 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Anonymous | | 14-Oct-2003 13:25 GMT |
| Comment 7 | VAn M. | | 14-Oct-2003 14:09 GMT |
| Comment 8 | T_Bone | | 14-Oct-2003 14:32 GMT |
| Comment 9 | bbrv | Registered user | 14-Oct-2003 15:13 GMT |
| Comment 10 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 14-Oct-2003 15:26 GMT |
| Comment 11 | Neko | Registered user | 14-Oct-2003 19:42 GMT |
| Comment 12 | strobe | | 15-Oct-2003 00:10 GMT |
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| OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 13 of 15 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 15-Oct-2003 01:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (strobe):
> FreeBSD is the one we all want ;-)
For uniprocessor machines, any of the three (four, with DragonFly) BSD kernels should serve about equally well. Overall "features" are also shared pretty equally, though if you have a favorite soft-RAID mechanism (vinum, raidframe), firewall (pf), or 'special needs' (TrustedBSD, ProPolice), you'll probably have reasons to play favorites until further cross-adoptions settle.
That said, one of FreeBSD's bigger draws is the Ports collection. FreeBSD's weighs in at 9,212; NetBSD pkgsrc is quietly second with 4,157; OpenBSD apparently has 2,182 as of 3.3. Given the sheer convenience, it's easy to stick with "the one with the most software" in lieu of other considerations... *But* Net's and Open's will have had that much more testing on platforms with, for instance, different endianness, hopefully ensuring that *you* won't be stuck as the first one to show up a bug when it comes time to install some essential application.
Nothing that can't get solved as FreeBSD's crossplatform support matures, but ask yourself if, when, and where you want to be contributing to the testing... and/or what'll best serve neophytes looking for something more 'organized' than existing Linux choices. [Hey, it takes a *trained* guinea pig to file a useful PR.]
Right now, given the hardware, OpenBSD feels like the best fit for the "real world," and NetBSD feels like it could be the quickest path to a perfect match for the "scene." As far as BSDs are concerned. ;) |
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