[TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Feb 5 08:25:59 AEST 2021
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Angus Robinson wrote:
> Not entirely sure as it's been a while since iI have used it but last
> time I remember TrueOS which used FreeBSD was easy to use for a newbie.
> There are other FreeBSD distro's like GhostBSD,etc that have an
> installer like Linux. My 2c is that FreeBSD is not trying to get
> people in that are newbies, it's for the server environment and it works
> extremely well.
Exactly; FreeBSD is not for newbies: I'll leave Penguin/OS to that market.
Mind you, OpenBSD was a bit of a bugger; all services are off by default.
It's perfect for a firewall :-)
-- Dave
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