-----Original Message----- From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:26 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Gilles Chehade; Matthew Smith Subject: Re: Optimising OpenBSD
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:27:03PM +0000, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:49:38AM +0930, Matthew Smith wrote: >> > Quoth Ted Unangst at 2008-04-09 08:38... >> > >Nothing beats an 8 year old article for the latest info. OpenBSD now >> > >comes fully optimized out of the box. >> > >> > Yes, I did notice the age, but that was about all that Google had for me. >> > >> > "Optimised out of the box" sounds good to me - not having to do anything >> > is the way I like to work ;-) >> > >> > You do realise that this means that the installation time of the base >> > system is now going to be down to about 15 minutes (from over a day) - >> > what am I going to do with all that spare time? >> > >> >> I would take that spare time to make sure I read all the pages of the >> faq, found some area I could contribute to, and find my way to paypal >> to subscribe for a monthly donation ;-) > >Don't forget to read all the man pages. Unlike Linux, they are all >complete (if they're not, it's a bug not a normal occurance). > >If you want a book, although its a bit old there's Absolute OpenBSD by >nostarch press. > >Doug. A nice book, but it's out of print. It is available as a PDF though. Ed
