Experience of OpenBSD so far
Had trouble convincing it to run in a virtual machine.
Partitioner is confusing as hell (using cylinders to determine partition size?!)
Install was very fast (10 mins)
FVWM is the default window manager which I hate.
Lacks binaries for libiconv and gettext so gnome won’t install.
Ports system is somewhat confusing
CVS won’t work
No wget! This is blasphemy! Have to use ftp to grab stuff!
OpenBSD is more complicated than Slackware and that is a difficult thing to have. Still, I have the most secure OS avaliable to the general public. I just can’t use it for anything.
At work, our production and development servers run FreeBSD. Firewalls are running OpenBSD. Neither include wget.
I just alias wget to fetch in my bash profile, which is pretty similar. Check out the man page for curl, too. It’s pretty neat in its own right.
After finding out wget wasn’t there, I tried curl which was absent as well!. OpenBSD is really stripped down by default. I’m guessing thats how they have their claim of “only 2 remote holes in the default install in 10 years”. Can’t own a box if there is nothing to attack.
Cheers for the tip on fetch, will have to give that a shot.