On 8-Dec-07, at 10:57 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
On Sunday 09 December 2007 00:27:01 badeguruji wrote:
Hello,
Is there anything on OpenBSD like the one below for
FreeBSD. It presents material very clearly and
cleanly, makes look freebsd very attractive.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0
Preview.pdf
Thank you.
-BG
Not really. OpenBSD doesn't attempt to market itself. You can look
at the 4.2 page to see all the new things in 4.2, or scroll back in
time
by looking at earlier pages.
Given that a new release comes out every six months, releases don't
tend to have a lot of show-biz flash to them. They give useful data
but aren't for the masses.
Really, you want to do a lot of reading on the web site. Do that
and you'll get good idea of what OpenBSD is "about".
--STeve Andre'
Newbie commenter here, but I feel the need to chime in. It my be the
rum talking, but i digress..
As somebody who has thought very long and hard about leaving the OSX
church, and then which open source system to support, and then which
*bsd to support, I hope my choice of OpenBSD can at least be heard.
There is a comic related to the 4.2 release (which I'm too lazy to
find and reference at the moment) in which "puffy" and other related
creatures are in a race. Yes, I know the comic was OpenBSD produced
and centric, but it hit home anyway.
There is a frame that shows a Daemon (representative of FreeBSD)
racing a penguin. That kind of solidified for me the feeling I always
had using FreeBSD that it was trying to be/compete with Linux. Don't
get me wrong, I applaud the FreeBSD team, but I'm not interested in
another religious OS argument. I can get that with OSX vs Windows.
I love arguing OS vs OS with people, but my choice to support OpenBSD
was based on the fact that it doesn't want to play that game. It's an
OS to choose based on it's merits, not it's name.
OpenBSD is not trying to supplant another OS, it is not trying to
become a religion, it is simply trying to be a secure and proper BSD
implementation. And that's what I want.
Advertising would certainly help where it's needed, ie cash and
hardware, but that is a secondary goal (from my understanding). You
have here an OS with modest yet commendable goals that isn't making OS
"penis size" it's number one goal. OpenBSD has it's goals and it is
trying to achieve them.
Yes, I'd love to see OpenBSD ads out there. But there needs to be a
balance between "hey, I'm awesome, use me." and "Wow, that's awesome,
I'll buy a CD." FreeBSD is in the same boat.
The beauty of OpenBSD is that it tries to exist on it's merits. To me,
OpenBSD's merits are greater than FreeBSDs.
Ultimately people need to be pointed to donate their time/money/
efforts to projects that they see value in.
I know OpenBSD is fairly "stuffy puffy" in it's philosopy, but that's
what it is. People who agree with that ideal will seek it out.
Yes, it'd be great to see magazine ads, but ultimately the great
paradox comes into play - OpenBSD needs donations to progress -
progress can't happen without users - users want a good product - a
good product in this arena needs donations.
/ramble off
