Re: openbsd in general

[George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>]

> From: Eric Hake <eric@centercomp.com>
> Subject: Re: openbsd in general
> 
> >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..

Yeah, it would be "really nice", but with a finite development team there's
no point in duplicating the excellent job that the FreeBSD people have done,
with both their ports and packages efforts.

							George