Free BSD vs LINUX

[spooooky]

hey everyone, i'm going to be making a classic quake server and wondered would it be better to use openBSD or linux to run the server?

[avdven]

I'm really exhausted but I want to respond with a very clear and concise response:

If you don't know what you're doing, neither will be secure.
If you do know what you're doing, you can make either nearly as secure as the other.
Generally speaking, BSD's are more secure directly "out-of-the-box".
If you've never worked with *nix before, go with Linux. The learning curve is steep enough for any *nix system, but BSD's take more work and more knowledge to set up properly.

AJ