Re: Installation

Darrin Chandler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:19:45PM -0700, Duane Hill wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Taken together, the man pages and the FAQs on the web site are some of
the best documentation I've encountered. Before you tune out: when I
started with OpenBSD I had to get used to finding my way around. I was
much more used to Linux, with their HOWTOs, etc. It took me a while
before I really, truly believed the info was there in the man pages. For
instance, the man page for vpn(8) that's in the base install. You won't
find this on Linux, or anything close. There is no barrier, apart from a
willingness to learn. You are fully expected to learn how the system
works to some degree. If you do not, no matter which system you use, you
will not really have much security.

> 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.  

Yes, I think you will be better off. If you're thinking that Ubuntu is
only a Live CD, it also has a regular install CD.


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