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Lets discuss what is great about OpenBSD

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OpenBsdRulez

Technical User
Sep 19, 2003
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Instead of asking our selves

Why use OpenBSD?

Lets all quote what's great about OpenBSD

I fot one:

- It's secure
 
Got one: it's clean. It installs with a minimal set of packages, and user can add more as he/she wishes.
 

It's Unix

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support
 
It's elegant : an only one diskette needed install for a fully operational OS (install download over ftp)
 
SCO doesn't own parts of it, or even claim to!

IBM and Sun are not trying to own it or suppress it.

Bill Gates isn't sending its paid development offshore (nor is Fiorina, McNealey, Ellison, nor Palmisano, to mention a few others).

- Ok, about 95% kidding there.
 
1. pf as a firewall is hard to beat
2. the ports collection is very cool
3. runs on many platforms
4. very fast
5. very stable
6. no buffer overflows
7. security is great

shane
 
it's a bare necessity operating system.
 
It's the best way off recyceling your petium 233Mhz and run the freakiest things on it.
(maybee I'll start a thread "what can you run on your OpenBSD machine")
 
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