Re: impressions of a new user

Moving this to advocacy@ where it belongs....

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Charles J. Fisher wrote:

> The world needs OpenBSD now, very desperately.

Erm, no. Having the whole world run OpenBSD would just be a minor improvement over the current state of affairs. And, besides, the world already *has* OpenBSD, for those who want it.

OpenBSD is a wonderful tool. It's not a tool that'll fix every problem. Trying to make it into such a tool would fail and, in the process, destroy OpenBSD.

> Why not make OpenBSD as consistent and approachable an OS as
> possible?

I've never worked with a more consistent and approachable operating system than OpenBSD. OpenBSD is nothing if not consistent. When I first approached it, I heard a great sigh of relief coming from my lips.

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> A first step would be a more reasonable configuration for ksh.

Here's your chance: provide that ``more reasonable'' configuration. Me? All I need is my .profile:

    http://www.trumpetpower.com/pub/.profile

Cheers,

b&

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