On 03/07/2012 07:26, Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote:
Hi,
I joined this mailing list just to tell you this: Right now, I feel
like never, ever touching OpenBSD with a ten-foot pole again.
A couple of years ago I decided to get back into computing and built a
box. I have run through many of the Linux distros and learned a lot by
just installing a new OS every so often and trying stuff. That sort of
behavior is mostly encouraged in the Linux world.
One of the things I love about OpenBSD is that if I don't know what I am
doing, I am expected to read and follow the documentation, and the
documentation actually works. I am treated like a responsible adult who
is expected to read and follow instructions if I want to use this
operating system. This is good encouragement for me to learn something new.
I have installed OpenBSD several times in the last year, and have been
able to get it up and running every single time. How did a moron like
me do that? I read the manual while I was installing the system. I
literally printed it out and followed it, and it worked! (Try that
with, say, Gentoo.)
The defaults in the installer are fine. I have installed OpenBSD on its
own disk and also in a multiboot configuration and was able to do both
by reading the manual, and with no formal computer science training
beyond that.
I don't really need OpenBSD for what I do, but the OpenBSD developers
who have worked hard for many years to make a professional-grade OS are
willing to make it available to me for free, with excellent
documentation so I can actually teach myself how to install it and use
it. And instead of spending an hour to RTFM and maybe going to mutt.org
to figure out how to set up mail so I can send this from the OpenBSD
installation I have sitting on a disk on this box, I'd rather spend that
hour using easy-peasy PC-BSD to look at lolcats and read about the
script kiddies who got busted by the FBI the other day and generally
feel smug.
So thank you for inspiring me to reboot into OpenBSD and get to work
learning something new on my day off. Maybe someday I'll be more than a
hobbyist.
Sorry, list, for the noise.
--
Jay Huldeen
j...@huldeen.com
