I just got a new labtop and I have been running FreeBSD and SLackware for the last 5 years or so and i am thinking about trying out OpenBSD or Gentoo. I was wondering what peoples opinons are about using either of those as apposed to the FreeBSD I have been using


My labtop is a DELL 700M with 2gig pentium M, 2gigs of ram, 60gig hd DVD burner, and ABG wireless card. It will be primarily used for penetration testing, both wireless and wired. So any suggestions on anouther external wireless card that can be used for packet injection DOS type stuff is welcome , model number and such...........



Openbsd for pen testing???? hmmmm

Any major differences I should be aware of, and and any opinions or info on Gentoo and what I should expect

I dont like openbsd for a desktop, only a server because they have outdated packages.

Openbsd has great wireless support.

Thats good to hear, cuase I hate having troubles setting up wireless, used to drive me nuts before I figured it out on freebsd, yea I checked it out, and openbsd does support the Intel chip wireless card!! Are their differences with openbsd though, do they still use ports the same way and rc.conf file for the networking??

yes they use ports, but lots of them are outdated

yes they use rc.conf like the other bsds, its not sysV

That old already, wasnt 3.7 just released like 2 months ago?

ports are seperate

oh! didnt know that, cuase in freebsd the ports tree always came in with new versions

ports doesnt come with openbsd

http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html