RE: How do you mount a Win98 drive under OpenBSD

["Joe Blow" <pagemaster41_(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

Yes although OpenBSD is secure it would be a far better OS if it did have 
more support from people and businesse's think about having a entire 
corporation writing open source software for openbsd or having and entire 
corporation backing OpenBSD with hardware support.  And although OpenBSD is 
secure it shouldn't require having to read man pages and FAQ's for hours to 
figure out a simple thing like mounting a drive that is one reason a lot of 
companies don't use Unix is because it often does require you spend hours 
learning basic things unless 1. you've had training or 2. their are people 
like Steve Andre nice enough to just tell you the command or how to do it.  
I love OpenBSD and love the fact that when on IRC and some lamer says, "you 
better shut up or I am gonna hack you" I can sit here and laugh, I love the 
stability, and I love the quality but I would also like to see it supported 
by more people and companies.  Tell the person what the command is and give 
them some advice if they decide to go the extra mile and learn exactly how 
and what the command is doing they have furthered their knowledge,or if they 
decide to just use it because it works and don't care about how great for 
them they lose out on some valuable information but that loss is up to them 
not others to say we aren't holding your hand go figure it out yourself.









> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Joe Blow wrote:
>
> > The problem with that is I do know what rm -rf / does, I learned a lot 
> of
> > stuff on my own and looking at man pages then the one time I can't 
> figure
> > something out from the man pages no one will help everyone is rude and
> > flames, and I end up not liking the OpenBSD user base.
>
> Aha! Now see, if you had said "I've looked at the man pages, and can't
> quite figure it out. Here's the command I tried, and here's the error
> I got.", then you probably would have gotten mostly pretty civil responses.
> Instead, you complain about not wanting to read the man pages, and just
> demand answers ready-made for your situation.
>
> Also, you should realize that, by and large, the OpenBSD user base doesn't
> really care whether or not you (or anyone else, for that matter) likes us.
> We care about secure systems. That means we appreciate the effort put
> forth by the developers, and we appreciate the fact that to *keep* our
> "secure by default" systems secure, we need to understand just what we
> are doing.
>
> If all you care about is ease of use, then my honest recommendation
> would be to stick with Windows. If you need *nix type tools, then
> go with a Linux distribution. Like you said, a lot of this stuff has
> easy-to-use tools. And odds are, if you have a question, someone's
> done up a web page on how they did it. 8)
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Dave Taira <bodhi_(_at_)_hagakure_(_dot_)_org>                2000.10.30/21:47:17 PST |
> | Morlock for Hire                                                       |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Sometimes I get a little too involved in my absurd little games. If    |
> | I'm not careful I could end up making a religion out of them. --Andr00 |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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