Hi Everybody,
I am total a noob in OpenBSD so forgive me for my silly question. In
real life I have a homemade Intel based Workstation/Server and an old
IBM Think Pad laptop both powered by FreeBSD 6.2 stable. I got an old
Pentium III made by Del last weekend originally intended for FreeBSD
testing purposes (mostly some packages which are not in FreeBSD official
port three so I am kind a scared to brake my systems trying to install
them).
I recently had some very unpleasant discussion with the sys admin at the
University of Arizona (I am a mathematician by profession) about computer
security after couple servers running Ubuntu got rooted. These were not
our math servers (which run Debian) but never the less I was affected by
the event and not very happy about it.
Motivated by the whole situation I decided to install OpenBSD (instead
of playing with couple FreeBSD applications) which is indisputably the
most secure OS on the world and learn little bit more about security issues.
I did quick 10 min ftp installation last Sunday. I was in total shock
how easy was to install the system (have to admit that is even easier
than FreeBSD).
It took me about 4-5 hours to get full working customized,
workstations with all gadgets (CD/DVD, printers, MP3 palyers, digital
camera, VoIP (fedora package))
plus all my work stuff TeX and related as well as VNC and VPN. The
system is one of the most logical and simple things I have ever touched
in my life (simple is GOOD).
Two thumps up for the developers and grand master Theo. Documentation is
in par with the famous FreeBSD Handbook.
Now it comes my idiotic question. During the printer installation I had
to change the permission on /dev/lpt0 for CUPS daemon to gain the access.
Normally in FreeBSD I would do that either by chmod for /dev/lpt0
device node or by editing /etc/devfs.conf with the line perm /dev/lpt0 0666.
In OpenBSD I did it with a chmod command but I have not noticed that
there is anything equivalent to /etc/devfs.conf file in FreeBSD. Is
there are equivalent an equivalent file or the things are just
different? I noticed that the syntax for starting daemons and rc class
of files are little bit different than in FreeBSD but very logical and
well documented.
I was shocked that Ogle was able to play DVD out of box despited the
fact that HAL doesn't exist (thanks God I wish there was no HAL in
FreeBSD as well).
I thought that I would have to mount first as udf file system. I do run
dbus daemon of course but I thought that would not be enough.
Anyhow, OpenBSD is on my DeLL to stay forever as it is just too good to
be removed (I am going to get another $20 box to play with FreeBSD packages)
Lastly, I just out of curiosity has anybody tried to port HPLIP to
OpenBSD. I googled and found a few OpenBSD discussions about it but
nothing in substance.
Also I noticed that TeXLive is listed (there is an unofficial port list)
but not in packages? Could somebody tell me if it is going to be
included in 4.2.
I am in particular interested in powerdot class of Latex presentation
which I had to install manually on FreeBSD (not an easy thing as it
requires some extra fonts nor
present in current version of TeTeX ported for FreeBSD) (and yes I do
know about beamer and ppower4 and they are ported for OpenBSD but I do
not give a shit for those two classes).
Sincerely,
Predrag Punosevac
