On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:52:03PM +0100, knitti wrote: > On 11/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > of philosophy. Linux is about making all kinds of toys work in a > > hot-plug way and allow people to boast about their uptime. OpenBSD is > > about security. > > I would add usability (conciseness, least surprise and coherency) and > thus maintainability to the list. I end up having less to do for OpenBSD > Servers to keep them happy running than for some Debian boxes, and > Debian _is_ damn well maintainable. >
True. Although I have't run into the problem, there have been many cries for help on the debian-user list when udev renames drive devices and a machine refuses to boot. The answer has been to use linux's ability to mount by LABEL= instead of /dev/* so that the kernel looks at all the devices for the approprate filesystem label. Just an example of a "surprise" gotcha. Doug.
