Fp on OpenBSD...

[Bill Vermillion]

press any key to reboot  -oops- Chad McWilliams said on Thu, Oct 28 14:00  

> Hello everyone.

> Has anyone had an opportunity to try filePro on OpenBSD 3.5 using either the
> SCO or FreeBSD binaries?

Just a comment on Open, vs Net, vs FreeBSD.

Open's thrust is to be extremely secure.  The line by line code
analysis found a lot of buffer overflows that were migraded/fixed
in NetBSD and FreeBSD.  And the entire community benefitted from
that as the BSD type licnese means it is used in many places
where you have no idea it is being used.

But it's a small company and as I understand it Theo DeRaddt drives
it all, and appears to be more of a PITA than Daniel J Bernstein.
This is based on comments I've read/heard over the years.

His outspoken views caused him to have a very large US government
contract cancelled - and the company operates out of Canda.
It's pretty close to a one man direction.

NetBSD has it's goal of operating on more different hardware
systems than anything else :-). And

FreeBSD has a core team of 15 people who are voted upon every two
years - and is a non-profit corporation.  There are a couple of
hundred committers who work on various pieces and can make changes
to only the area they administer, and there are a lot more that can
submit code for review and approval, and then have one of the
committers inject the code into the tree.

So if you are going to run FP on OpenBSD you will have about the
least support of any nBSD OS.  You would probably get better
support on DragonFly as Matt is pretty damn good too.

If you want the most supported/in-use go with FreeBSD.

Verio in Germany is migrating to that platform, to joing the
250,000 FreeBSD systems that they already are using.  I suspect
Verio alone may have more installs than Open - but that's just a
wild guess.


Bill
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