On 31 Oct 2005, at 18:21, Gareth Nelson wrote:
> Unfortunately people have been brainwashed with the windows way,
> being a *nix
> user myself I loved how simple OpenBSD was to setup, but I couldn't
> picture a
> complete newbie doing it.
I started out on Atari, moved to System 7, then DOS/Win95, Win98,
back to OS9, then OSX, Red hat, SuSE, WinXP, Debian, OpenBSD, and OSX
again. I've found that OpenBSD is the cleanest and leanest of the
*nix that I've played with. It really does just work (except for the
times when it doesn't).
What you do get:
- Security out of the box
- sshd preinstalled (unlike some flavours)
- A cracking builtin firewall
- A great package management system
- Clearly laid out, comprehensive documentation that is easy to
find
- A system and codebase you can do whatever you want with (Oh
BSD license, how we like thee)
What you don't get:
- 8000 applications you don't need and didn't ask to be installed
- Dozens of security advisories every week that need dealing with
- Spyware/Adware/Cruft galore
- Hordes of desktop support problems
I'm sure there's more, but that's how my life has been improved by
OpenBSD.
Gaby
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