On 1/19/06, NetNeanderthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I'm less than impressed with it after mounting the iso and viewing the
> contents. Their documentation is poor, if not void of content
> altogether.
you mean, aside from including man38.tgz? What else are you looking
for? There's some docs on their website, but why would you need
anything beyond what ships with OpenBSD? There's a man page for
everything, and while they don't include a "we did the following steps
in this order, and here's why we have privoxy and pf and how they're
configured", it's easy enough to just read the config files and the
relevant man pages. Keep in mind also that this is, at best, a beta
release (if not alpha).
> Call Anonym.OS what it is, a coagulated lump of untrusted packages and
> scripts conveniently bundled for those who are unwilling or unable to
> use OpenBSD in its native form.
the packages are from the ports tree - are you saying they're somehow
less trusted because you didn't install/build them yourself? The boot
script is there for anybody to peruse who wants to; no "trust" is
required - or at least, no more than is required for, say, flashdist
or any other project based on a modified OpenBSD install. There's no
secret sauce, no binary blobs, no closed source or NDAs.
As far as "unwilling or unable to use OpenBSD in its native form",
keep in mind the purpose of the project and their target audience. Not
everybody has the luxury of their own laptop, and it's always nice to
have something relatively secure to fall back on when stuck with a
less-than-sanitary public-use PC.
Let's not denigrate unnecessarily; we should be encouraging wider uses
and derivative projects, not biting the heads off of developers when
they release new OpenBSD-based projects. If it's a waste of time,
nobody will use it and it will disappear with no need for vitriol. On
the other hand, if it's a good project, well, that kind of development
is always a Good Thing.
This:
> It reeks of a clumsily-staged publicity stunt.
definitely comes off more like sour grapes than any kind of valid
criticism, IMO. Perhaps you didn't intend it that way.
> I digress; OpenBSD is free.
Definitely glad that it is.
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