On 7/22/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uh, no. > I think you missed the point of Henning's comment.
guilty as charged > This is something for developers to work on, not magic knobs for you to > twist. If there was something worthy of putting in the FAQ about this, > it would be in the CODE. This isn't some other OS that shall remain > nameless, where you are expecting to get a barely functional system and > have to twist a lot of knobs to make it run properly, OpenBSD is > supposed to have a good set of settings out of the box on the > best-tested version of the kernel. got it > Somehow, people seem to think there is some magic tweek we hide from > people that will make their systems run "better". If that were the > case, it would be set ALREADY. Sheesh...why would we hide such a thing? > why wouldn't it be set that way if it was a "always do this" kind of > thing? The people who persue these kinds of tweeks usually are trying > to optimize their cable modem or a T1 line that wasn't coming close to > pushing the limits, anyway. Might explain all the stupid looking fins > and funny exhaust systems I see bolted on cars...which is fine, just > don't expect the auto maker to help you...nor exect it to get you > through traffic any faster...inor get through the track any faster when > you are pushing down on the rear wheels of a front wheel drive car > *sigh*. But I digress... This isn't such an uncommon conclusion to come to really. I think most of the world (nameless *nix and otherwise) is used to dealing with things that require tweaking and adjusting to provide the best performance. What you just said though is one of the best arguments for using openbsd and should maybe be beaten into people's heads. It requires a totally different, albeit better and simpler way of thinking. Thank you for beating it into mine as I have now seen the light. :) > > > It would definitely help to lower the barrier of entry and then > > instead of rehashing this topic you could just point people to that > > doc (and perhaps throw some real world results in it for good > > measure). This would help people make the case for openbsd at work to > > their managers as well. > > No, lowering hte barrier involves making things Just Work without > tweeking silly knobs. I agree with this but as I sort of mention above people don't usually expect that - especially those that are trying to migrate from something different. They may have heard good things or are interested in the features it can provide, but they don't know the specifics and are used to dealing with complex or unoptimized piles of crap. Part of encouraging people to switch should at the very least be communicating that there are no hidden options or that straightaway things are going to work as best as possible. Joe
