Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Gamgee
From : tenser
Date : Sat Apr 22 2023 03:23 am

On 20 Apr 2023 at 08:16p, Gamgee pondered and said... 
 
 Ga> -=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
 Ga>  Ar> I like the OpenBSD approach better. Install everything via
 Ga>  Ar> ports/packages. If aprogram needs sandboxing, it can request it
 Ga>  Ar> itself via the pledge() and unveil() systemcalls.
 Ga> 
 Ga> I've told myself for years that I should learn one (or more) of the 
 Ga> BSD's, but have never gotten around to it.  Maybe I'll bump that up on 
 Ga> my TODO list a little.  Would you recommend trying OpenBSD first, or 
 Ga> FreeBSD?  Related question - once you "know" one of them, is the other 
 Ga> one easy/similar?

I think it depends very much on what you want to do with
the system.  OpenBSD is a lot closer to the "old school"
BSD experience, a la 4.3 or SunOS 4.  It makes a reasonable
server or firewall.  But if you're used to a more canned
experience, it may be frustrating out of the box (in that
sense, it's probably closer to, say, Arch Linux than to
Mint).  Software in ports on OpenBSD tends to lag behind
released versions by a good bit.

On the other hand, FreeBSD also makes a fine server, but
tends more toward the modern than OpenBSD; it's not too
terribly hard to set it up as a workstation, I suspect.

I've run both for many years; on edge devices and things
exposed to the Internet I tend to run OpenBSD.  I run a
FreeBSD server for kicks.  I use neither as a workstation
anymore.

So...what do you want to do with it?

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