John Orford wrote:
> Scratch my earlier suggestions - I thought you used Windows all you life...
>> Let me throw back another question - what does Gentoo potentially give you
> that OpenBSD doesn't? Surely you can compile most packages to your heart's
> content on OpenBSD (I know really little about BSD... :$).
If you believe the propaganda.
Gentoo gives you SMP.
OpenBSD gives you the ability to have this nasty "hole" in TCP never
happen to your box.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-111A.html
Apparently the OpenBSD boys had done all of that sort of validation for
_years_.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072
But, basically... and this part is important... you can be a troll and
say things like "God I hates all those Linux n00bies... that's why I use
FreeBSD... " preferably have it printed on a t-shirt.... or you know,
stick it into your website/mailing list sig...
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