I could not agree more with this. I have been using OpenBSD on my firewall
for about a year and it is pretty rock-solid-- it's been up problem-free
since last summer (minus some down-time to paint my computer room). Being
able to install my firewall by just writing a boot floppy and then having
the install grab everything I wanted over FTP was nice. The install could
not have been uglier aesthetically speaking, but it could not have been
prettier regarding the ease of install. I still love Slack for my
workstation/server, but I definitely prefer the OpenBSD install method.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Furrer [SMTP:jonny@jofu.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:28 PM
> To: plug
> Subject: OpenBSD
>
> wow, on a bet from a friend I decided to install openbsd on a box which I
> had sitting around at work. They've got the install process pretty
> sweet. I'm sure I'm not the first one on the list to have done the install
> over ftp, but I haven't seen any comments on it. I'm not a huge fan of
> low user interaction, but thats what this is, from boot to install I might
> have typed a couple hundred characters max and I had a fully operational
> box with openssh vs. ssh, sendmail, and even apache (plus many more I'm
> sure). I know this is a lug list, but I just thought I'd share in what was
> a interesting experience, though not one thats swayed me to drop my
> slackware/linux.
>
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