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You're moving to openbsd so you'll have a more hands off system? Good luck with that.
by toolz 12y ago
You're moving to openbsd so you'll have a more hands off system? Good luck with that.
- lmm 12y agoOne of my favourite things about FreeBSD is that it acknowledges that updating will always have edge cases you don't think of. So there's a text file that you read as part of the update workflow, and when specific steps are necessary, you follow them. I've never had an upgrade go wrong with FreeBSD, which is more than I can say for any flavour of Linux.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 12y agoFor what it's worth, Gentoo has a similar system. Packages can show a message when they are installed (including updates) and for system-wide changes the package manager will tell you to to read 'eselect news'.
- ashark 12y agoI loved Gentoo's package management system. I managed to break my system more with Gentoo than any other distro, but that wasn't the package manager's fault—mostly mine and/or package maintainers. I wish it'd gone as mainstream as dpkg and rpm—I prefer widely-used distros these days because I like being able to google any problem and find an answer (I'm well past the days where I found managing my OS to be anything resembling fun) but I miss Portage. I miss OpenRC, for that matter. Using that is the only time I've felt something like contentment while managing init.
- CHY872 12y agoIt's more that when you do need to get hands on, the code's pretty minimalist, the manuals are very good quality, there are fewer moving parts so less to go wrong, there's a good focus on code quality etc etc.
- toolz 12y agoCouldn't agree more. OpenBSD is a great bsd for those that want to understand their system inside and out and feel confident that the code quality is there, but it's just not designed to be an ease of use, low barrier to entry, bsd.
- CHY872 12y agoIt's more that when you do need to get hands on, the code's pretty minimalist, the manuals are very good quality, there are fewer moving parts so less to go wrong, there's a good focus on code quality etc etc.
- upofadown 12y agoWell so far so good. It looks like a series of dead simple scripts and config files. Oh, and the pf stuff appears to be awesome...