user13796: What is the difference between BFGMiner and CGMiner in Laymen's terms?
Also, the longterm outcome will be exactly the same if mining is done with or without a pool, correct?

user13413: bfgminer is a fork of cgminer. bfgminer allows the use of Get Block Template (less trust in the pool), but they're otherwise functionally the same. 

13796: <p>What is the difference between BFGMiner and CGMiner in Laymen's terms?</p>

<p>Also, the longterm outcome will be exactly the same if mining is done with or without a pool, correct?</p>
 13413: <p><code>bfgminer</code> is a fork of <code>cgminer</code>. <code>bfgminer</code> allows the use of Get Block Template (less trust in the pool), but they're otherwise functionally the same. </p>
