Re: impressions of a new user

On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 11:56 US/Eastern, Charles J. Fisher wrote:
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> Things I don't like:

*BSD have been doing this way for a long time. apachectl is what you can use to restart apache. ndc is what you use to restart named.

> In fact, I really miss the SysV init scripts. OpenBSD should have a

Again this is caused *BSD doing this way for a long time. Editing /etc/rc.conf is easier than moving files around and editing /etc/inittab.

> Mozilla doesn't work. Gimp is available, but there is no complete gnome

Mozilla will change in 3.4 when i386 goes elf, in fact it already does work in 3.4-beta.
The complete gnome port is located in x11/gnome or what is it missing?

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> (pd)ksh is not configured very well; everything is configured for

Csh is a *BSD shell so you should not complain when using a BSD.

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> pkg_add should do more with PKG_PATH. Part of the installation should

Find the server your self, the install is supposed to be simple and fast and small as possible.

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> The installer is a bit spartan, and also a bit confusing. OpenBSD's

The only thing I found confusing about the install was disklabels but I figured it out.

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> The documentation for the default NAT configuration (SOHO) ends up

So this was there by design so people do not turn on the POP server by accident and leave on it.

> What is the sense in bundling a POP server in the base operating

POP was not bundled until 3.2 or was it 3.1 but it still it was not bundled until lately.
I find I have no need for a POP server but if I did I could download one and find the best.

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Thanks,
Andrew Pinski Received on Fri Aug 15 16:20:52 2003