On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote: > I think you underestimate the importance of this "misc" mailing lists, > this is not the place to demonstrate a lack of understanding of what > OpenBSD is about > or that you haven't read anything about the OpenBSD release system :-)
But I'm not here to demonstrate *anything*; I was supposing, that I can ask here a question not covered by the FAQ's contents, for example (believe me, there isn't any answer to the question: "why we chose such way"). And even, if I - or someone - will ask the question covered by any docs, isn't just easier to skip it, giving no response at all, instead of wasting time answering the question, which - as I understood from some answers - perhaps isn't (from that person's point of view) worth any response? > Out of personal interest: have you been using OpenBSD long, and what do > you use it for? Not too long - since about beginning of this year - and "using" is perhaps a bit exaggeration at the moment, it should be rather: "I'm going to". What for? I've found, that probably OpenBSD could be best replacement for my earlier NetBSD-based installations, because - unfortunately - there still are some problems with such basic things like PATA/SATA drivers (or USB), which I'm unable to fix by myself, and the devs are currently busy with other things. OpenBSD just seems to be very well working on the hardware, which one can obtain very cheaply nowadays - f.e. Slot1 motherboards, which are working reliably, but aren't of any use for WinXP/Vista users now. I must say, I was surprised, when I reported the problem with SATA, writing in addition, that OpenBSD at the same hardware works without any problem. And I've got an answer: "...but they just ported our driver". :-O -- ZB
