Re: Installation
"Duane Hill" <[email protected]>
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Well, thank you for a more courteous response than my ill tempered, original post. And my apologies to the mailing list, I did not catch that it would be broadcast. My original intent was to have the most secure OS available. I have installed Linux about 7 or 8 times, NetBSD three times, OpenBSD (to the kernel level) twice, and FreeBSD (to the kernel level) twice. It's been over a year since the last attempt, making my familiarity a bit stale. Mostly, I've gone back to 98SE because I could not get pppd to connect (due to the oddities of the ISP I had then), and partly because those versions of Gnome and KDE were clumsy. The written instructions for OpenBSD are the most irritating and hardest to follow as the relevant parts are deeply buried deeply in irrelevant clutter, and I include Lucas' "Absolute OpenBSD". This irrelevant clutter is reducing recruitment of OpenBSD users, reducing the number of users. Such artificial barriers usually doom groups to extinction. OpenBSD is not likely to survive Theo. I'll take a look at the ones you mention. Live CD's are out, for irrelevant reasons. I'll have to try the others you mention. -----Original Message----- From: Darrin Chandler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 2:35 PM To: Duane Hill Subject: Re: Installation On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:26:55PM -0700, Duane Hill wrote: > I'm giving up on trying to do a simple install of this program as it > requires I wade through irrelevant information on many different > platforms and become an expert on the OS just to set up a simple > desktop install. > > You demand I be an expert just for a simple install in ONE platform. > > No. > > Meet the garbage can. Hi! Hopefully you haven't had many flames from this. No, I'm not going to encourage you to try again. Given what you wrote above, this is not going to be a good OS for you. If you're interested in using a BSD, you might consider one of the FreeBSD spinoffs such as PC-BSD or DesktopBSD. If you're not especially interesting in BSD then you might try out Ubuntu. But I am curious... why in the world did you pick OpenBSD in the first place? -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [email protected] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |