Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew Ng
Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) Regards On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:31:43 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Less than 1.5 GB :)

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Roy Morris
Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) Regards it's been done check the archives.

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Greg Thomas
On 4/17/06, Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) A step-through guide for what? If you're familiar enough

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Why do

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: Johan SANCHEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from the sources but even if that s not that complicated it could be useful to read in what

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0200, Johan SANCHEZ wrote: Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x*

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-17 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:05:08 -0700 Spruell, Darren-Perot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Johan SANCHEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from

OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made few screenshots on my main workstation ... Here it is

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Andrew Ng
Hi Johan, interesting. How much disk space would I need to get the same or similiar setup? Regards Andrew On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:42:06 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
Hi Less than 1.5 GB :) root and home fs are inside wdO which is : wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: FUJITSU MPB3064ATU E Cheers Hi Johan, interesting. How much disk space would I need to get the same or similiar setup? Regards Andrew On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:42:06 +0200, Johan

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Johan, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 5:42:06 AM, you wrote: JS Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. JS But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made JS few screenshots on my main workstation

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Darrin Chandler
A couple of weeks ago the computer my wife uses became so bad in terms of performance and maintenance that I decided to replace WinXP with OpenBSD. I'd wanted to do it a long time ago, but I was worried that the transition would be too much. My wife is not a technical person, and has only ever

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:25:33 -0500 Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Johan, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 5:42:06 AM, you wrote: JS Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. JS But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is