usualsuspects Wrote: > I will end up having at least one OpenBSD box on my network - anyone run > Slimserver on OpenBSD? I know from painful experience that it can be a > challenge to get software that is developed on/for Linux to compile and > run correctly on OBSD - also it has Perl taint "issues" - thoughts? I run Slimserver on FreeBSD. Presumably it's similar to OpenBSD. I deliberately chose it as I had cobbled together an old 500MHz AMD K6 with 128MB RAM from bits I had kicking around, so wanted the lightest footprint possible - no GUIs or sissy stuff like that. It's been running smoothly and without intervention in the attic for a few months.
I know very little about FreeBSD (and before I started, knew zilch). It probably helped that about 10 years ago I was fairly experienced with Unix System V, so most of the FreeBSD incantations were familiar to me. The FreeBSD ports facility works like a dream, and Slimserver is available from it. I just set up CVSup, configured the ports I wanted, and let her rip. It deals with all the interdependencies and I had very few issues that needed manual intervention. Does OpenBSD have a similar facility? -- cliveb _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
