Contributed by jose on from the i-just-love-the-fish dept.
The objective of my post is to thank OpenBSD community for their greate work.
I was converted to becoming blowfish user around 05-2003. Before that I was a solid Windows user who knew NT starting from version 3.1 and up very well. I have worked on and off on some Solaris and Linux systems. But I did not feel the DEEP satisfaction (inside thing) until I started using OpenBSD.
I really do not know, but something inside me LOVED OpenBSD and loved its SIMPLICITY. YES Windows USERS you heard me right, IT IS SIMPLE, so go ahead and make your move. :)
In the last couples of years I spent a lot of time finding bugs in Windows and writing security related papers, now this is going to change. YEP.
What made me love OpenBSD? Good question. Maybe because I am old style dude who love command lines, or maybe because it is a SECURE by default OS, or maybe because I just love puffy the blowfish who knows? Puffy know. :)
Finaly I like to thanks again ALL|ALL OpenBSD community.
Peace
NtWaK0"
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Personally, I couldn't agree more. Atleast considering what I've seen myself over the years.
I've also learned exponentially faster and overall, more about "unix" as whole when I discovered FreeBSD and OpenBSD after having used Linux for who knows how long of and on, back in the 2.5 - 2.6 days. It just "made sense" the first day I tried it and everything just seemed like it was where it belongs! Maybe that's because at the time I was switching back and forth from Slackware and Linux. Where'as OpenBSD IS OpenBSD.
I read the Absolute OpenBSD book cover to cover too. Great book! So far I have all OpenBSD books available but once there's more, I'll be buying them regardless of their technical level - so long as it has the OpenBSD name on it pretty much... ;-)
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By Daniel Melameth () daniel@melameth.com on mailto:daniel@melameth.com
I understand you completely. For me, the change began around OpenBSD 3.0... I never would have thought myself to be one [of those people], but now, when I power on my Nokia phone, I’m greeted by a smiling blowfish...
It’s only a matter of time before more people begin to know what we have learned...
Danny
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By Anonymous Coward () on
And my phone has the OpenBSD blowfish picture too, lol. My GF thinks it's geeky, but to me, OpenBSD is a passion!
Best Regards to all fellow OpenBSD'ers.
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By lincr () rutledge.50@osu.edu on mailto:rutledge.50@osu.edu
And then there was months of working to get X and ppp working. For all that time I would use my home lan connection and lynx to scour mailing list archives, where I found out about ctrl-alt-f2,f3... Finally one night I remember I went out for a cigarette celebrating to myself, I had the xdm login with the pretty blowfish! I felt like Belloq when the angel came out of the Ark, "It's beautiful!!!" I think it was 8 bit color and 640x480, but it was X.
Then I got ppp working and could share my modem connection through OpenBSD, dial on demand. Then it was time to burn some package cds at work so I had some software... I think I went all out with KDE, WindowMaker, all the eye candy stuff. Hey, I did my time at the console learning vi and getting net, ppp, and everything working... Actually at first I cheated and put joe on my install cd so I could avoid vi...
Anyways, now I have set up a handful of production servers running OpenBSD and have the release set, posters, a tshirt, and have it running on a 68k machine at home. If you think getting things to work on i386 is hard, try it for yourself. I think a lot of the software on some of the arches just gets built and not tested so much, you have your work cut out for you. Oh well, no virtual consoles teaches you about job control :)
lincr
By Daniel Melameth () daniel@melameth.com on http://www.melameth.com/openbsd.jpg
I just did a little doctoring of one of the images on http://www.openbsd.org/art2.html and made http://www.melameth.com/openbsd.jpg...
Danny
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By rabbit () rabbit@ulyssis.org on http://rabbit.studentenweb.org/daemon.png
(yeah, it's b/w, and only 32x32pixels, but that's all the phone supports. But it looks surprisingly good from a distance)
http://rabbit.studentenweb.org/daemon.png
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By Phil Greenway () sikosis@beoz.org on mailto:sikosis@beoz.org
FreeBSD was so much easier to setup.
And no I don't like Linux :P
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Morale?
Everyone likes what (s)he likes. Some like Open some like Free.
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By Noryungi () n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on mailto:n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m
Now that I understand it, the OpenBSD installer makes a lot of sense. Sure, it's not pretty, but it's also straightforward: step 1, step 2, step 3, etc... until OpenBSD is installed.
When you are used to it, it's actually less confusing than 90% of the installers out there!
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By Stijn () sa734 at netscape.net on mailto:sa734 at netscape.net
For the X windows, I didn't had any problem setting it up. If I remember correctly I used the standard ati driver. I'm running X in resolution 1400x1050. It looks real smooth :D
What error do you receive when starting X? Both xdm and startx work for me.I can mail you my config file if you want.
Another issue I have is the usb floppy. Doesn't seems to work. I receive following error:
umass_scsi_cb: status cmd failed for scsi op 0x00
umass_scsi_cb: status cmd failed for scsi op 0x12
umass_scsi_cb: status cmd failed for scsi op 0x12
umass_scsi_cb: status cmd failed for scsi op 0x12
Any thoughs about that?
G,
Stijn
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--Michael
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I agree that can be kinda confusing for newbies, but nothing you cannot solve reading a bit.
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By Phil () phil@bsdnexus.com on mailto:phil@bsdnexus.com
OpenBSD's installer is great, straight forward and easy to use.
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Give me a break.
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No manual entry for pants
By methodic () on
I guess the reason Im posting this, is Im curious as to what other limitations OpenBSD has for them, and what they use in place.
This isn't meant as a flame, I truely love OpenBSD.
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By Mestizo () security@mestizo.net on mailto:security@mestizo.net
We've attempted to deploy OpenBSD company wide as our standard OS for critical infastructure, but lack of SMP support still presents a pretty significant stumbling block for us. We often fallback to RedHat or FreeBSD in SMP scenarios.
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I think that this is because OpenBSD is so bloat-free. On one hand, this makes life great for UNIX-savvy people who can configure X, compile stuff, and appreciate an OS with up-to-date man pages and no stupid unnecessary ICQ clients and other cruft crammed into the default install. The downside is that without an installer that sets up X, KDE, and Gnome by default, all of the Linux-wannabes who actually run commercial software are kept away, and they keep the vendor dollars dedicated to Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE.
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By Damien () on
As a developper i got all i need in the ports. For the fun i can also use TV card, watch movies (even on DVD) and much more ...
The only things that lacks are proprietary software support (better known under the name "bullshit"). By this i mean compliance with some standards like for example MS Word files, MS Exchange protocol, MS project, ...
With some luck we will have OpenOffice available natively in a short period of time.
But IMHO MS will always be a pain in the ass when talking about format/protocol compatibility.
By lincr () rutledge.50@osu.edu on mailto:rutledge.50@osu.edu
I have to run Windows software at work. How do you handle Active Directory management from OpenBSD? Maybe some elaborate perl, I don't have time. I can use my macppc iBook and use KDE's Remote Desktop Connection (a vnc front end) to control the Windows machines. They are my bitches.
My gf is a publicity person, so I know that pros are definitely set on Photoshop vs. GIMP, PageMaker vs. KOffice and on and on. Whatever. Use what you need to use.
Maybe someday I'll be good enough to have everything that happens on my office workstation automatically glued to my OpenBSD environment through some Python. It would be fun to try, there are some cool tricks you can do with scripting. But I don't have much time to work on it. I remember I had one job where I could do everything I needed to do from TurboLinux on my wireless laptop, that was pretty cool. But you do whatcha gotta do. If you read DDJ, those guys do a lot of work in Windows as well as MacOS, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, whatever. There's a whole planet of software out there :)
Lincoln
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AD - OpenLDAP + kerberos (believe me after deploying a huge multi-forest ad implementation it sucks)
rdp client - rdesktop
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My (short) OpenBSD story: I got interested in the BSDs some years ago and got a book (included unofficial distributions of OpenBSD 2.2 and 2.3). But I never really got it installed back then (mainly due to trying a multi boot configuration).
Some months ago I started again with OpenBSD. This time the installation of 3.4 worked quite well. I played around now and then, not much though.
Today I got pf running. Complete with packet queueing (which I don't understand completely yet), NAT and redirections. It works really well! But I guess I won't replace my small USR router yet, mainly because the old PC (200Mhz K6 with around 130MB ram - I guess that's enough for some state table entries) is larger, louder and consumes more power.
Thanks anyway, OpenBSD already gave me quite a joy! :-)
Regards,
johannes
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Therefor I'll have to live with the USR router for now. In some years perhaps.. :-)
By JShadow () JShadow@techie.com on mailto:JShadow@techie.com
I too am a very experienced windows user, and while I do enjoy using win2k as a desktop, I HATE using windows servers!!! >:|
So recently I decided to put together a test box at home and start learning unix by learning OBSD. I'm not a TOTAL nix newbie, but enough of one that needed to spend a few weeks learning commands and how to change ownerships and such.
The only trouble I've encountered so far is in setting up a DNS server for my home environment. I had real trouble figuring out that I needed to create a named_dump.db file for rndc and then set the user permissions correctly. Took about 5 sessions to finally figure it out. :)
The one thing that really seems to set OBSD apart from Linux is it's silky smooth manual pages... so far the only thing that I've had trouble my head around have been the DNS as I said, and that's really a 3rd party sort of thing(had to look up the named.conf stuff, since the named_dump stuff wasn't set up in the example files that came with OBSD).
Very soon I'm going to get my little firewall, running an really optimized version of Win98se because of memory constraints, running OBSD. Ah, how sweet that will be! :)
ROCK ON OBSD!!
By Mal () ereg@hiera.com on mailto:ereg@hiera.com
It took about a year working on Open BSD to start to feel comfortable and I really enjoy it more and more than any other OS. I am still perplex why my fellow classmates still insist on running Windoz when they could have the power, stability and freedom that OpenBSD.
Thanks for your brief experience you shared.
MDW
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I'm also an "old-style" command line user since the days of DOS 4.01...I just got tired of MS's leaving "issues" unpatched until it becomes a threat. (Vulnerabilities are sometimes as late as over 200+ days!)
I ran into OpenBSD when it was version 2.7 but never tried it, since I didn't have a spare machine to play with at that time...That changed until a few days ago...I then bought Absolute OpenBSD and downloaded the documents from the OpenBSD site...Whoaaa! Why didn't I start using OpenBSD back then?! I've wasted so much "Windows time"... :)
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What a great day
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