Re: openbsd in general

[Eric Hake <eric@centercomp.com>]

>about the sources - I'm one of those guys who poke constantly in
>sources *grin*. But the OpenBSD distribution, as of ftp.openbsd.org and
>mirrors, is very empty, compared to BSDI's. Are there any more complete
>distributions, or I'll have to download everything that I've had in BSDI
>by hand and compile it 

I too am coming from BSDI 2.x over to OpenBSD, and my first impression was
Cool, but sparse...  I went to the web site, and found the "ports" link to
ftp.freebsd.org.  All the good stuff is there, and it's pretty easy to get
it working...  I compiled, "by hand", most of the tools I was so used to:
top, pico, ncftp, etc...

I wish openbsd had a "binaries" tree, or "contrib packs"  It would be great
to go to the web site, and see "Get the xyz utility pack containing:  top,
blah, blah", download it, and cp it to the local/bin directory, etc..

Hmm.. there's an idea :)

Eric