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FreeBSD Status Report March-April 2004

Posted by Hemos on from the development-continues dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The FreeBSD project has posted a new status report for March and April of 2004. Work continues on locking down the network stack, ACPI made more great strides, an ARM port appeared in the tree, and the FreeBSD 4.10 release cycle wrapped up."

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  1. An ARM port eh? by MrIrwin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    x86 life looks ever more limited!

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  2. Re:PF and ALTQ by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Flip a coin, it doesn't really matter which you choose:

    FreeBSD is something i'd put on a critical nfs/http/ftp server or something

    OpenBSD is something I'd put on a Pentium 200Mhz box to keep that nfs/http/ftp box safe.

    Nothing prevents you from doing either one with either operating system. It's just about preference ;)

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  3. Re:Good Work! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Debian already has something of the sort, and a lone Gentoo developer is working on it.

  4. Re:PF and ALTQ by pkplex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    #include "imo.h"

    I think the advantages of FreeBSD are drivers ( for newer toys ), speed, and that jail thing ( which I have not actually used ) which AFAIK lets you run a virtual machine chroot thing. Also, freebsd ( and netbsd ) have automagical update the ports/packages tools and things. On openbsd you need to pkg_delete them yourself.

    Other than that, I think OpenBSD is the ticket. Lots of people seem to think OpenBsd is only a firewall OS... which is unfortunate. OpenBSD works fine as a standard server ( eg, web, dns, mail, ftp, samba, etc ). The security effort which goes into obsd is also a deeper than just things disabled by default, too.