[nycbug-talk] New to BSD (dont know which one to get)

[Dan Langille]

On 4 Apr 2004 at 13:37, Tilly wrote:

> I have been using linux for about 2 years now and i have been doing
> some research online but i am little confused on what BSD i should
> use. I am looking for running a server and i have heard many thing
> about Freebsd. 

In short, and in general:

FreeBSD - use this one if you're new.

NetBSD - use this one if you have several different architectures 
which are not covered by FreeBSD

OpenBSD - use this if you want to do some specialized networking 
which the other two won't do.

-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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