wrote:
> I never understood the appeal of OpenBSD with Theo at the helm...he's
> kind of like anti-Linus, except without the goatee.
Have you seen the new installer? If you want a newbie to "install" their
system quickly, you probably won't find a more streamlined installation
process than OpenBSD now. Everything from intelligent auto-partitioning on
up is done fairly well (amazingly improved) and I honestly haven't found a
nicer install program anywhere.
Of course, once you install it, there is that nice "configuration by text
editing" that Windows users are *not* used to. That's the main hump as I
see it. One big benefit of OpenBSD compared to Linux is that things are
usually "black and white." They work fairly seamlessly, or they are not
supported.
As for non-newbie users, well, it's hard to find an easier to administer
firewall/router. The general system performance of OpenBSD lags Linux, for
sure, but administering an OpenBSD box is really quite breezy.
Aaron W. Hsu
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