Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Thu December 6 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
The installer acts as a weed-eater: it weeds out users who don't read
the docs. If you don't read, the partioner will kill you.
At least it doesn't require a pocket calculator anymore. When I
first installed it you had to manually calculate cylinder boundaries!
OpenBSD is fun, secure, and interesting, but they don't make a secret
of being newbie-hostile
I don't know about newbie hostile, but I would say it is definitely a UNIX
guru environment.. just trying to download was a frustrating 30 minutes.
there was no "*.iso" like 99.999% of the other distros use. Then it took me a
while to figure out if it was even going to install/run an X environment.
Don't even ask about a LiveCD..:)
and I've installed UNIX from 36 floppy disks!
Please do ask about a live cd
quoted from comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:
I am pleased to announce LiveCD/LiveDVD image updates:
4.2-release for i386 is now available. There is a bug with the XFCE image,
so that is still 4.1.
amd64 architecture will follow within the next few weeks.
www.jggimi.homeip.net
some interesting stuff there
--
Bill
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