From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think, quite the opposite, that it's fine the way it is. It's not > > openbsd's fault that people fall prey to the stupid > knob-tuning game and > > quite dumbly follow that line of thought. I think instead > that the other > > OSes should be responsible for slapping a disclaimer on > their {box, web > > page} saying something like "This operating system, > contrary to rational > > thinking, is not optimized for the most reasonable > performance under the > > most common use cases. Instead of being functional > out-of-the box, you are > > expected to re-compile critical portions of the system in > order to get them > > to work to your specifications. If you don't find this > behavior intuitive, > > feel free to use a more rational, completely functional > operating system > > instead." > > > > I agree with you completely and in a sane and rational world it would > happen just like that. Unfortunately I highly doubt we'll see any such > disclaimers though. I bet there are lots of people eager to defect and > it would definitely make things easier if such concepts were made > clear (maybe there could be a "Bad OS Refugee" page in the faq).
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Introduction Read between the lines and that's what we have... ;) DS
