On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:04:54 +0300
unix wrote:
> Hello. My reasons for this proposition:
> 1. The user will be able to test basic websites without installing
> anything.
> 2. The user will be able to read an incredibly useful official
> FAQ, with no external devices involved.
> 3. The user will b
We used to have lynx in the base system.
It was removed because of security concerns and no-one willing to
audit/replace it.
This is a fairly common pattern in OpenBSD. Considering the complexity of
the web, I don't see this ending any differently with any other text
browser.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 07:00:56AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:54:40PM -0400, luna wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:04:55 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > > hi.
> > >
> > > we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date
> > > and there w
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:54:40PM -0400, luna wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:04:55 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > hi.
> >
> > we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date
> > and there wasn;t really the resources (or motivation) to update them.
> > however not a
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
wrote:
>
> Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an
> assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a
> general-purpose system administrators manual.
>
> I guess people didn't wa
For what it's worth, I keep a downloadable copy of the FAQ :
=> https://si3t.ch/pub/openbsd-faq/
=> https://si3t.ch/pub/openbsd-faq.tgz
html is dumped to txt to read with any pager.
One can keep it on a disk if necessary.
Regards.
"Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" wrote:
> Regardless, if someone does write a new "intro to sysadmin" document,
I really like to say to fresh new admins that if they want to learn everything
about system administration, find an OpenBSD system and type "help" in any
shell,
then start reading fr
Chris Bennett writes:
> I would instead recommend a new package with the critical newbie
> information included in text form.
> FAQ, anoncvs and ftp addresses, etc.
Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an
assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a
g
I would instead recommend a new package with the critical newbie
information included in text form.
FAQ, anoncvs and ftp addresses, etc.
The first afterboot man page could suggest something like
pkg_add newuser_docs.
If you need or want it, just install it.
Sure, I install Lynx to look at the pa
On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 09:04:54PM +0300, unix wrote:
> Hello. My reasons for this proposition:
> 1. The user will be able to test basic websites without installing
> anything.
> 2. The user will be able to read an incredibly useful official
> FAQ, with no external devices involved.
> 3. The user w
pkg_add -r w3m
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:01 AM unix wrote:
>
> > With the web as it is, I can't see a text-mode browser as being
> > comfortable for day-to-day desktop usage. In addition, some of the gui
> > browsers have some degree of process separation and jailing, and
> > active enough devel
Am 10.09.2022 21:29 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
With the web as it is, I can't see a text-mode browser as being
comfortable for day-to-day desktop usage. In addition, some of the gui
browsers have some degree of process separation and jailing, and active
enough development there's a better chance t
On 2022-09-10, unix wrote:
> Hello. My reasons for this proposition:
We went through this before when we decided to remove lynx.
> 1. The user will be able to test basic websites without installing
> anything.
> 2. The user will be able to read an incredibly useful official
> FAQ, with no extern
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