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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes you do but you usually netboot to do large installations so this is just a case of adding a new root device with some extra tools on it on your netboot server. There is an official solution in -current that involves DHCP but I don'
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by csmuk 13y ago
Of course. 1. Oren is the least bad of the three mentioned, but his "Ayende" blog at times is a little vicious when it comes to slating other people's work [1] especially when the sheer number of bugs we've tripped over
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by csmuk 13y ago
Excuse the rant nature of this but I'll give you some reasons as a software/devops guy who does 50/50 UNIX/Windows and has written more C# than I care to remember, daily for 12 years... The ecosystem is horrible. Why? 1.
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by csmuk 13y ago
> Now does OpenBSD have an automated installer? Yes. You can use expect with /install easily and you can simply add your own local "site set" tgz which can be hosted on a local HTTP/FTP server to apply any local cus
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by csmuk 13y ago
That 6 pages, if you read it, includes the language, all functions, flags and examples. Its possible to digest it fully in a few minutes. It is complete.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Unix manpages are fine. If you've read the GNU awk manual vs BSD awk, you'll understand what I mean. GNU awk manual is hundreds of pages long and serves only to confuse the user. Not only that, half of it is listing differences be
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by csmuk 13y ago
I've not done a direct comparison but it feels solid under load. IO bound processes seem to balance IO fairly i.e. no bad neighbour problem where one process will starve another and a fork bomb won't take out the system even thoug
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yeah I do the same with the USB stick as its easier than CD media. I have a vbox VM ready to roll for such occasions. I have had numerous problems on older Dell/HP machines with USB booting anything so it's reasonable. I buy the o
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by csmuk 13y ago
To be honest I've been using it for about 7 years and I didn't know that. I'm not sure that matters either. It's not really a priority and I respect that.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Signed up to agree. Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it's unreal. Bar Theo's sharp tongue (which is usually spot on), you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cl