My very first mailing list subscription to any of the openbsd lists. I think I am subscribed to FreeBSD and NetBSD on EVERY list.
I just wanted to drop a note to the maintainers/developers/and enthusiastic users of OpenBSD to communicate my joy at discovering just how good OpenBSD is. Here is a little bit of background. I am a developer/system admin/integrator that has a long history with Unixes and BSD specifically. My exposure to Unix was first on BSD on a VAX in the 80's, next UNICOS on and on and on. I have been using BSD based unix on big hardware since then and starting with "little" hardware with that BSDi ugliness. For whatever reason my primary BSD's have been FreeBSD and NetBSD. That is up until NOW. I do have a need for Xen paravirtualization and sometimes resort to using that other ux frankenblob thing but I stick close to BSD where I can. In any case the last time I actually looked hard at OpenBSD was about the time that it split from Net. A few days ago I downloaded the latest 5 stable release and have been overjoyed ever since. This has to be the cleanest most well organized and well thought out Unix I have used in a long time. Kudo's to al of you I am going to start using it immediately for my personal systems and can see no reason why it will not be my goto platform of choice for projects down the road. Consider me a new fan maybe even a zealot soon. Congrats - fantastic job at keeping elegance while adding functionality that no other unix can seem to do over time. RB Ps. If anyone is interested as a test bed I brought up an IPv6 test bed that is pretty much complete right down to the IPv6 named, postfix, web services, etc. Anybody is welcome to play with it if they need an IPv6 peer for testing hooked to the real IPv6 net. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
