> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:48:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: Obiozor Okeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD > To: Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I try to explain to my Linux friends just how > great a system OpenBSD really is and some people > just don't get it! I am MUCH more productive > because I can go and do more work and a higher > quality of work without having to tend to or keep > checking up on a "fragile" box - I've even had an > OpenBSD box run strong with a bad memory bank (that > Linux would not install on)!
I've noticed that to a lot of techies have this attitude: if it isn't GUI, it's not worth knowing. I said GUI instead of Windows because now that you can do a lot of things with a GUI on Linux, even the Linux people are starting to have this attitude, especially newbies. It's even frustrating to teach a newbie the advantages of vi. Never mind that I would much rather talk a computer-illiterate person over the phone on how to change a configuration file with vi than any other GUI text editor. When I first started toying with OpenBSD, I installed it on an old system laying around. Then I got bored and tried to install Debian, Red Hat, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. All of them could not get past the installation routines. So I put OpenBSD back on. This really isn't a fair story because it was so long ago and I don't remember all the details. But I do remember the impression OpenBSD had on me because of this. -- Need cash? Click to get an instant cash advance http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/CAaCXv1KmERGDiMZuZL4koo1G8xit51z/
