On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:39:25 +1100, Shane J Pearson wrote: > What is so difficult? Install a pkg or port, read the pkg_info for it, > do what it says. If you come across a problem: apropos, Google, MARC... > If you mean difficult as in "a little more effort" then ok, but it seems > like a small price to pay. Months ago a had to install Red Hat 9 on an > AMD XP 2800+ with 1GB RAM and a 7200RPM PATA disk, it took BLOODY AGES! > I felt like I was installing Windows XP on an old machine. OpenBSD takes > _minutes_, including getting X going. Then a little more to install the > packages I like.
Seconded. I still keep thinking that an initial install isn't sooo difficult. Rather simple, that is. But when I look at our desktops (> 500), who'll ever do the upgrade once per 6 months (or a larger upgrade once per 12 months) ? This is why we rather roll out the 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'-systems for *nix. Let's be realistic, there is no way to ftp... patch... make... pkg_add -u... manually on a larger number of systems. *If* you talk about 'desktop', a fully scriptable version is indispensable before you start to think any further. The solution would rather be to have more developers so that all changes in /etc/ and ports can be done in a transparent manner. > Fork OpenBSD and you'll be > loosing them. That seems like a pretty extreme loss to me. Fork is no solution, as far as I can see. Just the opposite is needed. Uwe
