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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD or FreeBSD Date: 16 May 1996 12:19:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4nf6gr$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <NEWTNews.832198137.6374.huff_mat@tripolis.tasb.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3624 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19494 Matthew Huff <Matthew.Huff@tasb.org> wrote: > Not to start any wars :-), but if I was going to be building a > firewall / Internet / Intranet server off of a free Unix like NetBSD > or FreeBSD, which would be better? If you wanna use the i386 architecture, i doubt you will find any of the systems particularly better than the other one. Of course, it's a different matter if you wanna use e.g. an old Sun for this purpose, in which case you're much better with NetBSD. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)