Howdy Gareth,
On 01/11/2005, at 3:41 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote:
I tell people of the joy of puffy everywhere I go, at the busstop I
shout
"THEY CALLED IT BSD AND OPEN BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS FREE"
And here's to Puffy Hood!
Seriously though, I now recommend OpenBSD to everyone as a firewall/
server
system for those migrating from that redmond thing. As a desktop
OS, it's
unfortunately a bit difficult to setup with everything needed by
the average
desktop user who doesn't care what their OS is.
What is so difficult? Install a pkg or port, read the pkg_info for it,
do what it says. If you come across a problem: apropos, Google, MARC...
If you mean difficult as in "a little more effort" then ok, but it seems
like a small price to pay. Months ago a had to install Red Hat 9 on an
AMD XP 2800+ with 1GB RAM and a 7200RPM PATA disk, it took BLOODY AGES!
I felt like I was installing Windows XP on an old machine. OpenBSD takes
_minutes_, including getting X going. Then a little more to install the
packages I like.
This makes me wonder - a desktop OpenBSD fork, similar to pc-bsd but
based on FreeBSD might be a good idea.
I think the greatest thing about OpenBSD, is the developers. They did
after all, make OpenBSD what it is today. Fork OpenBSD and you'll be
loosing them. That seems like a pretty extreme loss to me.
Shane J Pearson
