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FreeBSD 4.0 Review

Brew Bird writes "32bitsonline has a nice write up on FreeBSD 4.0. Makes me think I am about do for another upgrade..."

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  1. English by dcs · · Score: 2

    Could you please try again in English? I'm having a hard time parsing what you said.

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  2. Speed, stability, security... by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 3
    Sounds like they worked really hard to make this release top-notch. I'm going to try out 4.0 when I get my hands on another box.

    I've been using OpenBSD; the focus on security and the excellent docs make it my OS of choice. I'm glad to see FreeBSD taking the cue and incorporating OpenSSH. It is a great improvement over connecting through telnet, especially if you need to go SU occasionally.

    FreeBSD sounds tempting, though, especially for my laptop (where speed is probably more important to me than security.) One security feature I'd miss, though, is encrypted file system features; does anybody know what's available for FreeBSD? I am going to check it out; I really want more experience with the various BSD flavors.

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