Re: Again?: Mouse in console

[Joacim Melin <listor@melin.org>]

Not to engage in a flame war, but the differences between Linux, and 
specially the one from Red Hat, and OpenBSD are MAJOR to say the least.

Quite frankly, I found it easier and less intimiating to google for an 
answer than asking on a OpenBSD mailing list since the chances of 
getting flamed for asking the "wrong" question are quite big.

That said, OpenBSD is a very stable and also a very advanced operating 
system but I'd would like to stress the importance to be a bit less 
trigger happy when newbies (such as myself who come from almost seven 
years with Linux) ask around for help and instead point them in the 
right direction.

Remember that even a small friendly pointer in the right direction 
encourage users to learn more instead of just formatting the harddrive 
and install something else. And I for one would rather have them learn 
Unix by using OpenBSD than *ahem* something else. :)

Thanks,

Joacim

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On Jan 4, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Bakken, Luke wrote:

>>> Looking at /etc/rc.conf makes this pretty obvious as well.
>>
>> Yes, how funny, looking at the answer always seems to make
>> things pretty obvious, doesn't it?
>> Try to put yourself in my feet: I didn't know the answer.
>
> From reading your posts to the misc@ list, I get the feeling like
> OpenBSD is not the right OS for you to be learning UNIX. I first 
> learned
> on MkLinux and Redhat 4.2 and then moved to OpenBSD. I found that those
> operating systems have more newbie-friendly documentation. OpenBSD's
> documentation is excellent **if you already know UNIX well**.
>
> If you keep flooding the list with requests for help for things that a
> little better understanding of UNIX (like grep and the fact that /etc
> holds most configuration options) would allow you to find yourself, you
> will keep getting flamed.