any BSD in a storm (was Re: [LUNI] Citrix/ Unix....)

[Aaron]

I believe DragonFlyBSD is actually a fork of FreeBSD 4.x

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/

I use FreeBSD and OpenBSD (router/firewall/desktop/server and nameserver 
respectively.) OpenBSD named install is chroot by default - call me lazy 
but I like it :)

FreeBSD as a router/firewall with pf (ported from OpenBSD actually) 
makes an excellent firewall. The reason I use FreeBSD vs OpenBSD here is 
because of device polling support in FreeBSD which OpenBSD lacks.

Chad Perrin wrote:

> Douglas J. Trainor wrote:
>
>> Chad,
>>
>>    You seem to be out of touch
>>    with NetBSD.
>>
>>    Check out http://NetBSD.org
>>    They also give out a combo with 4.4BSD Lite from UCB.
>>
>>    NetBSD 2004 annual report  
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Foundation/reports/2004.html
>>
>
> Considering that all I said about NetBSD is that I haven't heard word 
> one about it in operation in a couple of years, I'd say you're 
> probably right: I'm out of touch with NetBSD.  Without looking at the 
> URLs you've provided (which I probably will look at in an hour or so, 
> when I'm at a stopping point with some of what I'm doing right now), I 
> can say with a certain amount of confidence that NetBSD is probably 
> almost as cross-platform capable as Debian, and still probably the BSD 
> that works on the greatest number of hardware platforms by quite a 
> lot.  FreeBSD and OpenBSD just haven't been pursuing cross-platform 
> functionality the way NetBSD has done.  If I had to make a 
> recommendation right now, though, for someone that isn't already a 
> *BSD devotee, I'd recommend FreeBSD or OpenBSD for the newb on the x86 
> platform.
>
> Note:  There's a more desktop-oriented variant of OpenBSD being 
> developed, called DragonflyBSD, that I've been kinda keeping my eye 
> on.  It's not quite mature enough to suit my purposes, and nothing in 
> the *BSD world pleases me as much for software management as Debian's 
> handling of software management, but if Dragonfly lives up to its 
> promises it will eclipse the major reasons I might have to recommend 
> FreeBSD to anyone at this time (aside from the cool daemon logo).
>
> Keep in mind that all of the above is analysis by someone who reads a 
> lot, and hasn't actually used any of the BSDs very much.  Yes, I've 
> used *BSD a little, but most of what I know about it is theory.  
> There's no substitute for hands-on experience.  Considering that one 
> of my jobs involves working for an IT consultancy, one can assume I do 
> a lot of research and analysis and dabble in practical use of a lot of 
> things, but I'm not a guru of *BSD by any means.  As noted above, for 
> instance, I am indeed out of touch with NetBSD.
>
> I'm also apparently afflicted with diarrhea of the keyboard.  Wow, 
> that's a lot of tangent.
>