On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:30:47AM -0700, gm5729 wrote:
> Am I just using the wrong distro for this stuff? Should I be looking at
> Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, or maybe even one of the BSDs instead?
As you might know, I'm kinda the "local BSD guy" here in town. I have
found OpenBSD very good for my needs. The hardware support has been
great for me, including wireless. And also, there's a lot less
"thrashing" of features, interfaces, et al.
The big issue for a lot of people is that it's free software, but it's
not Linux. Another big issue is that it doesn't come with a GUI
installer.
I still use Windows at work (no choice), but there's no Windows at home.
At home, 100% of my daily computing happens on OpenBSD. I do not spend a
lot of time unbreaking things that used to work. The time I do spend
unbreaking things is because I'm running the development version and
occasionally test patches for myself and others.
It's the kind of stability I grew to love about *nix back in the 90s
with Linux and more so with FreeBSD. Today, OpenBSD is the highest
quality and most stable OS available, imho.
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