Re: Just curious ...

[Stephen Marley <stephen_(_dot_)_marley_(_at_)_catwoman_(_dot_)_cl-is_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:56:49PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  I am a long time linux user (RH, Debian, Slackware) just trying to get a new 
> machine (Dell Poweredge SC420) I installed OpenBSD 3.6 snapshot on, to boot 
> without freezing. I have not had a single helpful response (tried both this 
> mailing list and comp.unix.bsd.misc.openbsd) on that score for the past 24 
> hours (FreeBSD installed and ran ok on this machine, but I wanted to try out 
> OpenBSD). Had this occured with Linux, I would have received at least a few 
> responses by now. Maybe its got to with yesterday being Friday and that the 
> user base of OpenBSD is quite small :)
> 
>  What I am a little curious about is the amount of antipathy towards *GPL, 
> FSF, and Linux community in the BSD community. Though by no means are such 
> sentiments universal, and good arguments may be made in some cases that BSD's 
> tend to be more secure than Linux (out of the box), I still wonder about the 
> real reason about the bad blood that seems to get into the discussion every 
> now and then. Does it have to do with the terms of the license or with the 
> perception that linux has been more successful in the marketplace in spite of 
> arguable superiority of BSD over Linux (depends on the pov) ?
> 
>  I am *not* trying to start a flame war, just got curious about some comments 
> I saw on another thread here and and more generally, on the Usenet.

I don't care for advocacy arguments. I like Linux; I even like Windows;
but OpenBSD is my preferred OS for network appliances and server work. I
doubt you'll be all that impressed if you're just playing around.

If you want help you need to help yourself first. Check the FAQ and
mailing list archives. Post a dmesg regarding your original problem and
I'm sure you'll get a better response. The fact that the installation
kernel worked OK means there will be something you can switch off to get
the installed system to boot.

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