On Thu December 6 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
The installer acts as a weed-eater: it weeds out users who don't read
the docs. If you don't read, the partioner will kill you.
At least it doesn't require a pocket calculator anymore. When I
first installed it you had to manually calculate cylinder boundaries!
OpenBSD is fun, secure, and interesting, but they don't make a secret
of being newbie-hostile
I don't know about newbie hostile, but I would say it is definitely a UNIX
guru environment.. just trying to download was a frustrating 30 minutes.
there was no "*.iso" like 99.999% of the other distros use. Then it took me a
while to figure out if it was even going to install/run an X environment.
Don't even ask about a LiveCD..:)
and I've installed UNIX from 36 floppy disks!