You are a normal user and have full disk encryption. You must have read the man page on how to do that? Found the installer option did you. I have read several books on openbsd and all the man pages I could find and didn't find out how to do it anywhere else other that how to webpages. On Dec 21, 2015 13:15, "Christoph R. Murauer" <n...@nawi.is> wrote:
> > I don't need a special need case. I have already configured the system > > I need, but it would have been nice to know about these configuration > > options earlier. > > Just curious, if you have already a configured system why you then > complain about things like that ? The entry point for OpenBSD is RTFM > (Read The Fucking Manual). I pointed you to 2 links with informations > about things you want which are there already for some years. > > Counter question, instead of complaining - do you run a website or > wiki to provide useful informations for new users ... or are you doing > other things ? > > > Anyway, my point is that OpenBSD doesn't need to be a research OS as > > Theo has stated. > > The point is, OpenBSD is Theo and vice versa. Theo created that, what > this community wants and needs. > > > It could have some minor tweaks to the install that undoubtedly > > could persuade users to continue. > > The main problem is, many people are not interested to read > informations or to spend money for books and so on. If people had > problems, they could ask. > > > But maybe that is the mindset of the OpenBSD hacker. Make it hard > > and difficult for everybody that doesn't want to spend their life > > away searching for commands they don't know about. > > Comeon, I am also a normal user and have a working system with full > disk encryption. So, what is so difficult ? > > > If my Asus laptop, which I figured out at the time needed to disable > > a configuration option, would have accepted feeebsd, I suspect I > > would have gone with them. Not because they had more up to date > > software systems like kde, but because their system doesn't put up a > > fight against the user and doesn't self-destruct any time it needs to > > fsck: By Default. > > I started with Linux and continued with FreeBSD and experienced this > things there. It is really a pain in the ass to get in FreeBSD a > console with german umlauts - which I had in OpenBSD by default after > the install. > > I run OpenBSD for round 8 months with breaks. In this time I hade no > fsck and 1 kernel panic which was my fault. The main point is, noone > force people to use OpenBSD ... as Theo would say, if it is not for > you, choose another operating system. > > The rest of the discussion is useless but, as more as I read at mics@ > I understand, why developers really get pissed-off from time to time.
