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I have OpenBSD installed as a router/firewall, and have been thinking about trying either OpenBSD or FreeBSD out as a desktop system, as well. What kind of practical differences (not philosophical, like "OpenBSD's focus is security" [those are well explained at wikipedia ) are there between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? E.g. default shell, different commands or ways of configuring things etc.? | |||||||
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Having used FreeBSD for years, I decided to give OpenBSD a try on a firewall machine. All I found was that they were similar in uninteresting ways, and that OpenBSD was clearly less well developed. FreeBSD has a much larger feature set, better hardware support, higher performance, and so forth. Other than being able to stay current with the truly excellent child projects (OpenSSH, PF, etc), I see just about zero benefit to using OpenBSD over FreeBSD. I actually took OpenBSD off of that machine once FreeBSD grew PF with ALTQ. | ||||
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No practical differences. Openbsd leads in security, encryption and networking (esp. Wireless) Freebsd is more dedicated to i386. I use both on the server, workstation and laptop. I prefer openbsd it might be slower but it doesn't compromise on security and 'unfree' code/drivers etc. | ||||
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