I've been running openBSD since 3.3 too. You seem to have noticed thing I never stopped to look at, like the csh tcsh pdksh etc...
I must admit that the upgrade are quite annoying. The 'solution' I found for this is to keep the older version until it's not supported, and then just do a clean install. This way you only need to upgrade once a year.
Now where I absolutely do not agree is here: "There is no automatic update agent. Patching in general is cryptic, the process isn't uniform, and the documentation in this area is not very good."
Ok there is no automatic agent, but you just open the patch file, and the first few lines give you the EXACT commands you have to type it to patch your system, and it's rarely over 5-6 lines. Now I know it's not point-and-click, but come on, it's not THAT hard...
Try openBSD, it works very well, it's very secure out of the box, and the Packet filtering is very powerful. I've read in numerous places, even here on slashdot, that it's superior to linux's ipchain/ipfilter.
"System overview
Mandrake Linux 9.2 features the following software:
Apache 2.0.43, Samba 2.2.8a, MySQL 4.0.15, ProFTPD 1.2.8, Postfix 2.0.13, OpenSSH 3.6.1p2"
Postfix 2.0.13, and no sendmail to be found (altho I only quickly looked at it). I don't know if this is the version version of mandrake that comes with postfix instead of sendmail, but this is great. Postfix is so much easier to configure then sendmail. And the little detail of the sendmail security history...
All in all, this is a great choice imho.
"Granted I only admin Linux and Solaris so I cannot speak to AIX/HPUX/IRIX/*BSD/... I'm sure they are quite similar. If you want to see good Unix GUI tools go look at the OS X Server Tools [apple.com]. Very cool."
I don't have any commercial experience with *BSD, but I run a few home servers, and openBSD is pretty much secure out of the box...real great OS for servers
" I cannot count how many times in the past month I've had to reboot my Windows 2000 machine. I also cannot count how many months its been since I had to reboot my Mac. "
Really, that's weird, because I'm running win2000 atm, and i haven't had to reboot it pretty much ever since i installed it...maybe the problem lies 12 inches in front of the screen...
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I've been running openBSD since 3.3 too. You seem to have noticed thing I never stopped to look at, like the csh tcsh pdksh etc...
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I must admit that the upgrade are quite annoying. The 'solution' I found for this is to keep the older version until it's not supported, and then just do a clean install. This way you only need to upgrade once a year.
Now where I absolutely do not agree is here:
"There is no automatic update agent. Patching in general is cryptic, the process isn't uniform, and the documentation in this area is not very good."
Ok there is no automatic agent, but you just open the patch file, and the first few lines give you the EXACT commands you have to type it to patch your system, and it's rarely over 5-6 lines. Now I know it's not point-and-click, but come on, it's not THAT hard...
P.S. I'll have to agree on the OS X comment tho
Try openBSD, it works very well, it's very secure out of the box, and the Packet filtering is very powerful. I've read in numerous places, even here on slashdot, that it's superior to linux's ipchain/ipfilter.
"System overview Mandrake Linux 9.2 features the following software: Apache 2.0.43, Samba 2.2.8a, MySQL 4.0.15, ProFTPD 1.2.8, Postfix 2.0.13, OpenSSH 3.6.1p2" Postfix 2.0.13, and no sendmail to be found (altho I only quickly looked at it). I don't know if this is the version version of mandrake that comes with postfix instead of sendmail, but this is great. Postfix is so much easier to configure then sendmail. And the little detail of the sendmail security history... All in all, this is a great choice imho.
"Granted I only admin Linux and Solaris so I cannot speak to AIX/HPUX/IRIX/*BSD/... I'm sure they are quite similar. If you want to see good Unix GUI tools go look at the OS X Server Tools [apple.com]. Very cool."
I don't have any commercial experience with *BSD, but I run a few home servers, and openBSD is pretty much secure out of the box...real great OS for servers
" I cannot count how many times in the past month I've had to reboot my Windows 2000 machine. I also cannot count how many months its been since I had to reboot my Mac. "
Really, that's weird, because I'm running win2000 atm, and i haven't had to reboot it pretty much ever since i installed it...maybe the problem lies 12 inches in front of the screen...