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by hiphopyo 3637 days ago
It's awesome that cool things from OpenBSD are being ported over to FreeBSD, but why not just use OpenBSD from the get-go? It's already a struggle having to deal with FreeBSD's outdated version of pf.

iTWire - Crypto: FreeBSD playing catch-up, says De Raadt: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-cry...

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I've got a lot of love for OpenBSD but I can understand people wanting to use FreeBSD for things like ZFS and dtrace. However for those seeking to use said features personally I would recommend looking at an illumos distro.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD are ideologically opposed. FreeBSD is free as in freedom, OpenBSD is free as in beer.
Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are BSD licensed.

Why do you think FreeBSD is free as in freedom?

... "says De Raadt"

Maybe there is a group of people out there that don't want to deal with that ... guy.