On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Jose P.G <rayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I swear that i am not a troll. I don't understand anything, LOL, why have to > be a troll? My questions are REAL, i haven't read the faq carefully, i only > seek for help (more fast, i think). > > REALLY, i don't understand, when i was learning about Linux Debian i was > doing the same questions (though Linux is more easy for beginners), why this > mailing list is different? I repeat, i don't understand why i have to be a > troll. > > "Thank you". > >
Because in OpenBSD-land people who can't do their own research are not received well. Linux is newbie-friendly because they're intent on beating Microsoft. OpenBSD is intent on making strong, stable systems. OpenBSD could be easier but I'd take cleanliness over Linux's "wheee let's make BUGFIXES [without regard to the logical integrity of the system]" most days. By asking these questions you are wasting the computer bandwidth of the mailing list and every system that talks to it, and the mind bandwidth of the humans who have to filter it out. I already filter (manually) most of the mail from misc@ because it's not relevant to me and still misc@ overwhelms me. You can hopefully imagine that in this situation handholding is something we all begrudge. Seriously, start at afterboot(8) (this notation means run `man 8 afterboot`), read it all the way through and follow the pointers it gives you. Once you're bored with that go the the FAQ and read that. And then just watch misc@, and whenever anyone mentions a device (e.g. wd(4) or ath(4)) look it up in the manpages (if you're not on an OpenBSD system at the time there's http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi). We all go through this, it hurts, it makes us better. Do you want to be better? -Nick p.s. if you learned debian without learning what mount(8) is you couldn't have learned it at all
