On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:43 +0530 "Mayuresh Kathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is it about OpenBSD that I can't resist it? > > After the past long exchange about "our ultimate goal" and a lot of > people advising me to go over to Solaris 10, I did, I removed OpenBSD > from one of my machines and installed "Solaris Express Developers > Edition". > It was slick looking, very graphical with most of things you want to > do, had Java SE 5/6 preinstalled, and had everything thing that I was > expecting from OpenBSD. > > But yet, after 2 hours of fooling around, I came back to OpenBSD. > > For one thing, it took me almost 1.5 hours to install Solaris, compare > that to 30 minutes with OpenBSD, including 'packages', 'src' and > 'ports'. > > The second thing was probably the knowledge that things are simple > with OpenBSD, none of the complicated layouts thing as with Solaris. > You could follow instructions from ancient books like "Practical Unix > and Internet Security - Second Edition" to the T. > > Given all that, inspite of all the hammering I've taken over my > comments, I'd prefer to stick with OpenBSD. > > Thanks to Theo and the core gang for delivering such a good, clean > operating environment. > > Best, > > ~Mayuresh Mind your heads fellow hackers. It can cause addiction. -- Henri Salo <fgeek at hack.fi> +358407705733 GPG ID: 2EA46E4F fp: 14D0 7803 BFF6 EFA0 9998 8C4B 5DFE A106 2EA4 6E4F [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
