On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > On Mar 15, 2008, at 14:48, Genadijus Paleckis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html > > > >oh, and before you started to read, to be more comfortable just do s/ > >linux/openbsd/g > > Whoever wrote that needs to discover girls and/ boys and beer. I use > OpenBSD because it lets me get shit done and then go do more > interesting things.
Please don't tar all of us with the same brush. I use Debian because I didn't like RedHat. I used RedHat because the book was used and $2. I bought the book because my version of OS/2 wasn't Y2K compatible and went crazy at Y2K + 1. I looked at the BSDs but I didn't have the knowledge-base to understand it. I've stuck with Debian on my new box because it is so simple to keep up-to-date and as a good security record. However, Linux keeps trying to attract Windows users and even Debian has default desktop-environment installs. This changes the culture. One used to have people writing to the debian-user list asking how to mount a USB stick. Now they are asking why it doesn't happen automatically. Worse, a problem will be presented and one will invest lots of time trying to sort out a wiierd situation, only to find later that they're using Ubuntu. Ubuntu is based on Debian Unstable (Sid) to get the newest features but adds things that aren't free enough for Debian, and wraps everything in a clicky-pointy thingy or changes how config files work even if the path is the same as on Debian. Linux doesn't work well on old hardware. I like to tinker with old hardware. OpenBSD is great on old hardware. I've learned enough about Unix on Linux (before it turned into Lindows) to start on the BSD learning curve. I've never been able to get FreeBSD's installer to work and its security profile looks similar to Linux (add features at almost any cost) while NetBSD takes forever (if ever) to address security issues that come up solved on FreeBSD and Debian first, followed closely by OpenBSD (if it was suceptable in the first place). As soon as I have a box with enough hard drive space to compile fixes, I'll be trying OpenBSD on a home-production system. Until then, it is very good on stand-alone boxes (e.g. as a print-server). Thanks, Doug.
