On 2008-04-30, Realto Margarino <rm@justlinux.ca> wrote:
> Robby Workman <newsgroups@rlworkman.net> says:
>>On 2008-04-30, GuestUser <guestuser@mailer-fake.org> wrote:
>>> What are your thoughts about Slackware versus OpenBSD as a highly stable
>>> and secure infrastructure server for the following roles - firewall,
>>> gateway, file and print, DNS, and SMTP mail?
>
>
>>With which one are you *most* familiar? Use that one.
>>I *like* OpenBSD; it's installed in another partition on my laptop;
>>If I weren't using Slackware, I'd definitely be an OpenBSD user.
>>However, "secure by default" is not very useful if the admin can't
>>maintain it securely or has to do insecure things in order to use it.
>
> How is BSD for packages these days? The last time we did an
> install, admittedly 4 or 5 years ago, the big packages were two or
> three revisions behind.


Some of them are a bit "behind" and some are current, but I have yet
to find one that doesn't "just work" when installed. Quality and
stability is more important than having that "new and shiny" version
number.

-RW