OpenBSD is great for those who understand how to use it, but not for newbies. Personally, I had everything I needed installed on my laptop for university within 30 minutes, it took me all night to setup a windows box for someone.
The average computer user could benefit a lot from the security features in OpenBSD (how many DDoS bots are out there?) but we need to help them get it up and running. On Monday 31 October 2005 04:59 pm, Andreas Kahari wrote: > On 31/10/05, Gareth Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tell people of the joy of puffy everywhere I go, at the busstop I shout > > "THEY CALLED IT BSD AND OPEN BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS FREE" > > > > Seriously though, I now recommend OpenBSD to everyone as a > > firewall/server system for those migrating from that redmond thing. As a > > desktop OS, it's unfortunately a bit difficult to setup with everything > > needed by the average desktop user who doesn't care what their OS is. > > This makes me wonder - a desktop OpenBSD fork, similar to pc-bsd but > > based on FreeBSD might be a good idea. > > I've used OpenBSD on my desktop machines at work and at home for five > years now, and there's nothing that I need to do that I can not do. I > use OpenBSD because it's the BSD which I have found easiest to set up > and use. I'm not the average computer usert though, but possibly > quite close to being the average OpenBSD user. My firewall at home > runs FreeBSD (m0n0wall on soekris) ;-) > > Fork however much you want, but I think it would not be constructive. > > -- > Andreas Kahari
