[TriLUG] Debian vs Mandrake vs Redhat vs . . .

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 06:44 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> OpenBSD is a personal favorite and also comes with IPSec built in, plus
> it is extremely secure.

OpenBSD is an excellent non-Linux free operating system for a lot of 
applications, but I didn't recommend it because of some of the 
requirements listed.  I think you'll agree, Jon, that OpenBSD is not as 
hands-free in terms of updating software.  They provide no binary 
patches, and no sophisticated package management & retrieval system 
like Debian, Mandrake or Red Hat.  The support community there is also 
far less tolerant of people who don't fully investigate solving a 
problem on their own, whereas the Linux community (for better or worse) 
tends to tolerate ill researched questions more.

Chris Hedemark
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