On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:24:16AM -0400, Chris Dukes wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:28:40AM +0300, Dexter Tomisson wrote:
> > > http://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-left-openbsd.html
> > 
> > IHBT...
> > 
> > There are those that use OpenBSD for every bit of their computing
> > experience.  I do not even attempt to understand them.
> 
> Not using OpenBSD for most everything is a cop-out. Means when there are
> problems, you don't think them.

-ENOPARSE
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> 
> As a user, it's your privilege. For actual developers that want to make
> OpenBSD better, using it for most things is a good way to keep yourself
> honest.
> 
> I find that my OS needs are such that OpenBSD is quite enough for a lot of
> things... yes, including a desktop OS.

Seems perfectly reasonable... I wish more Gnome developers would embrace
the same thought process :-).

But the thread was started by a troll that wanting OpenBSD to work
on his "New Shiny" instead of trying to figure out what he wanted to
do and if OpenBSD was the right tool for the job.

I came upon OpenBSD due to a problem with networks.  I came upon OpenBSD
after the stupidity of "You can do everything from Windows 3.0.
You can do everything from OS/2.  You can do everything from BSD386.
You can do everything from Linux.  You can do everything from AIX."
Unfortunately I couldn't, but boy did OpenBSD have some rather good
documentation that related to the network problem I needed to solve.

You develop on OpenBSD for OpenBSD and I appreciate it.
You have a set of things to do where it appears you can do them
all on OpenBSD.
I get tossed things like java apps that can cause a machine with
24G of ram to swap itsself to death.  If I were to put OpenBSD
into the mix it would be to severely sanitize what can reach the java apps
rather than actually try and run them.  
There are those that take the attitude "I'm loyal to platform X, so I
must get it to run on platform X."  Well, I don't understand those folks
and why they don't think "How can I get management to kill off use of
this app and to fire the code monkeys to blame for it?"

I have teenagers and a wife that want all of the facebook and youtube
shiny.  I'm sure that given enough time and effort I could get all
of that working under OpenBSD, it might even take less time than
cleaning up  a Windows box thats been to all the other malign web
shiny.  


-- 
Chris Dukes