-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OpenBSD is for the world. You have to ask yourself a few questions. Are you an open source advocate? Do you like the freedom to use an operating system the way you want to? Do you value stability and code correctness in an operating system? Is security paramount in your computing world? Do you value accurate documentation and a developer world who pride themselves on correctness? If the answer to these few question is yes, then OpenBSD is for you.
If you like for someone to tell you, how to use an operating system and don't mind your OS crashing and security exploits, then you're in the wrong place. On 11/19/2013 10:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: > Hi > > I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. > I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in terms of IT expertise? That is, who are simple computer *users*, not IT professionals? > I need to know this because I am starting feeling that, as an average computer user, I might be out of place here. I was attracted to OpenBSD by its security-by-default philosophy. Admittedly, I don't know much about security and I would not be able to set the proper security settings on my own, so I have decided to adopt OpenBSD and use it for simple day-to-day tasks, as a desktop OS (as I would any popular Linux distribution). Does this choice of mine, and its underlying reasoning, make sense? > Are there any significant drawbacks to my adoption of OpenBSD (such as OpenBSD being too technical and too difficult, as compared, say, to Linux distros)? > > Please, give me some advice. If OpenBSD is not for me, I would rather know it sooner than later. > > Thanks > > Zaf > - -- Salim A. Shaw System Administrator OpenBSD / Free Software Advocate Need stability and security --- Try OpenBSD. BSD, ISC license all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSi4k7AAoJELO0Z/gjFO4kryMIAKifERLcoPeYtYo544vMC+c3 c18nb275QTLp7bMEl+iZqfuEcRsQ0V4cHfO+IsJ6Z1RAWwwEFu5GtYvWm01KOWk/ PIdh+A5e3N5aHsu0VWpgBLZeyJPH2x4QzQwOOITNk6ak5mLyVmPr8PkTDV083zNl /U+NKoOR7o/V+EMcvzrvxd3GQh5TB+pnFaEuqXU7JkqcHdLdS2NhTDy2W7zAp5LQ EL8GWpBKzN/dXD1vUhRq7c7fez5TZxoQ2tL3IvsMyds7P/BSl21B7tTwUIx/oo5O hjB9bF13OCy+WXYWDESKMOodMlREm7wUETMpdubCGVOpxD61L/TZCGWcgKGEXew= =K6m4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
