Hello Douglas,
Am 2008-05-03 21:32:48, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty:
> What software do these workstations use? The reason I ask is that there
> is a market segment (including reportedly Yahoo! internally) that runs
> OpenBSD on workstations for the combined security and 6-month release
> cycle. There aren't many security patches that come out in those 6
> months for the base system (which itself is fairly complete) and many
> security bugs in third-party apps (packages) which affect other distros
> don't affect OBSD due to the changes to gcc which they made. If all you
> need is a simple UNIX with X (OBSD comes with a simple wm) and you just
> want to add a fancy wm and Firefox, then OBSD may be great for you.
>
> If, however, these workstations are e.g. graphic-design workstations
> that require a lot of third-party apps or non-free graphics drivers,
> then OBSD either may not work at all, or be less easy to maintain than a
> debian box, since fixes are source patches. You'd have to patch on one
> box (or a dedicated build machine), make a new package, and then install
> it on all the boxes. I've never needed to do it, but it is all almost
> automated. Installing the packages is very much like apt-get.
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I am using NetBSD since ages (longer then Debian) and I can confirm, if
someone need only a BASIC Workstation, she/he could go with ANY BSD
derivates but there is only a problem with hardware support which work
heavyly better in Linux as on any BSD derivates...
And of course, you can get a nice X workstation (including Mozilla) on
NetBSD for less then 256 MByte CF-Card... which is definitivly not
possibel in Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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