only 44%? Huh? I thought it was much much much higher! Anyway, guess you are correct then...
Indeed, the resolution and refresh rate was bad, but that was mostly because they used some stupid dos program to do it. The userinterface was not bad: didn't have anything that shouldn't be there, and everybody could practise for weeks on it.
I don't quite get it: al you.AU and.US people are so wrapped up about the NEW idea of electronic voting? Here in Belgium, 90% of the people voted electronicly the last elections, and some villages (eg where I live) started with electronic voting some 8 years ago or so.
Here, the system is as follows: you get your voting card by mail a few weeks before the election-day (as usual), you go with your voting-card and ID to the guy that sits there, you give him your voting-card and ID, and he gives you a card with a magnetic strip (in stead of the paper with all the candidates on). You go to the computer - running DOS, slide the card in, take the laserpen and click on your candidate. The magnetic cards comes out, you go back to the guy, put your card in a cardreader, take your ID and go home...
The only problem we've had so far is with the laserpens: they aren't always accurate...
... which means there is going to be a lot discussion about it. Some very Good Things(tm) are in it (ipv6, so isp's will finaly have to implement it), but some bad as well (a lot of people will cry that HELO is no longer apreciated)...
OpenBSD has no (i think) export restrictions, as it is.CA based, not.US.
OpenBSD includes Kerberos, more info http://www.openbsd.org....
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Basicly, the difference is this:
- FreeBSD is the fastest (you can argue about this, but it is that way 85% of the time), and has better Hard and Software support (running WordPerfect or Doom or Quake (even the beta 3) for Linux is no prob...
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only 44%? Huh? I thought it was much much much higher! Anyway, guess you are correct then ...
Indeed, the resolution and refresh rate was bad, but that was mostly because they used some stupid dos program to do it. The userinterface was not bad: didn't have anything that shouldn't be there, and everybody could practise for weeks on it.
I don't quite get it: al you .AU and .US people are so wrapped up about the NEW idea of electronic voting? Here in Belgium, 90% of the people voted electronicly the last elections, and some villages (eg where I live) started with electronic voting some 8 years ago or so.
...
Here, the system is as follows: you get your voting card by mail a few weeks before the election-day (as usual), you go with your voting-card and ID to the guy that sits there, you give him your voting-card and ID, and he gives you a card with a magnetic strip (in stead of the paper with all the candidates on). You go to the computer - running DOS, slide the card in, take the laserpen and click on your candidate. The magnetic cards comes out, you go back to the guy, put your card in a cardreader, take your ID and go home...
The only problem we've had so far is with the laserpens: they aren't always accurate
... which means there is going to be a lot discussion about it. Some very Good Things(tm) are in it (ipv6, so isp's will finaly have to implement it), but some bad as well (a lot of people will cry that HELO is no longer apreciated) ...
OpenBSD has no (i think) export restrictions, as it is .CA based, not .US.
....
OpenBSD includes Kerberos, more info http://www.openbsd.org
Basicly, the difference is this:
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- FreeBSD is the fastest (you can argue about this, but it is that way 85% of the time), and has better Hard and Software support (running WordPerfect or Doom or Quake (even the beta 3) for Linux is no prob
- NetBSD runs on a lot of different platforms
- OpenBSD has more encryption/security options
I would recommend FreeBSD in your case