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Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released
Eh-Wire writes "Theo has announced the release of the lyrics to the OpenBSD 3.7 song "The Wizard of OS". Theo writes in the announcement, "Please be sure read the commentary I have written next to the lyrics of the song. The artwork and lyrics for each of our releases relate to something big we have been dealing with over the last 6 months of the release -- our fight to get programming documentation and redistributable firmwares.""
"User-friendly" and "secure" mostly don't go together.
The people that use it generally do consider it easy to use because of the simplicity.
It's simply not targetted towards what most users looking for a desktop system would consider easy to use.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
Why would 'ordinary' (read: clueless) people want to use it anyway? It's for those who want cleanliness or die-hard security without resorting to patches or self-bondage. I have never heard of it targetting end user systems. Linux and Free/DFly BSD seem more for that kind of deal. NetBSD is edging up too.
Honestly, if you can't use it, you probably don't need it. People who need real security are probably in paying jobs and are certified for use in operating systems, not GUI configuration tools.
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OpenBSD is user friendly, it is just very picky about its friends, like some other projects.
There's no need for ordinary people to use OpenBSD.
What you are requiring is more work, for something "they" are not willing to do. That's not how it works. You do your job, and then you do what you like. If you like both, it's ok. But there's nothing wrong with "them" doing things "they" like.
Of course, probably "they" are not even the same guys that develop OpenBSD, the software.
Can "ordinary people" follow an online install guide, and partition a drive? If so, they should have no problem installing OpenBSD.
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Pink Floyd was prety damn unique anyway, a song in the same vein as their post-Syd-pre-DSOTM days is quite excellent, no matter what the subject.
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So what? BSD isn't about being user-friendly. Joe Average is better off sticking to Windows or using a Mac. BSD isn't designed for those who want to point-and-click their way through everything. BSD is about providing a "free, functional, and secure" Unix, and BSD does a really great job at doing that.
BSD isn't trying to be the next MS Windows or something like that. BSD is a very good Unix-based operating system that has all of the Unix tools that I need for developing applications. There are many features of BSD that I like, too, such as ports and the fact that I can update the entire system only with a few easy to remember commands. Besides, BSD is easy to use. FreeBSD has just about the best documentation there is. Anyone who is literate and has 30 minutes can probably install BSD easily by reading the accompanying documentation.
Why does every operating system need to be "user-friendly" in order for it to be appreciated? The goal of BSD isn't to have 95% of the market. The goal of BSD is to stick to the Unix philosophy and improve it.
How is a shell the most primitive way to admin a machine? I know lots of admins with real jobs that use solaris and linux, all three bsds, and they all use a shell on all these systems. They're all so advanced that you can even pick your shell!