On 1/3/07, Karl R. Balsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The misc list was the most helpful place to learn. Imagine, asking Jason Wright and Angeleos Keromytis and Daniel Hartmeier direct questions about 'bridge' (jason wrote it), Encryption (angeleos was the expert in it), or Packet Filtering (daniel wrote it) and getting back detailed responses. To be able to walk up to my boss and say "I just talked with the maintainers of the tools we run and they confirmed our hunch, -we can proceed with "x" if "y" criteria are met". Talk about a huge difference with calling a vendor and paying to talk to a trainee looking at a database entry that might not even be relevant.
I was thinking those exact thoughts yesterday. Even though I'm not a developer and can barely get through some basic code I still know that I can get solid, useful information about OpenBSD. I haven't used NetBSD or FreeBSD but I know that the depth and quality of information available about OpenBSD is magnitudes better than the Linux or any proprietary OS. Greg
