[MLB-WIRELESS] *nix system for begginers

[Random]

With such a familiar sounding praise of *bsd i think i must add my
2cents. :)
 
Sick of redhat/debian moving your config files? Sick of having to run
some ridiculously buggy tool to setup that network card? Sick of weekly
security patches just to keep your firewall your's (ie not 0wned)? 
 
Then OpenBSD is your saviour! :)
 
heh, IMO it is the easiest, quickest and safest *nix on the planet. Damn
i can get a box up and running from scratch in seriously under 10 mins.
The only hard part with the whole thing is learning vi. [grin]
 
Open may not be known as an easy bsd but, just like Free it's
documentation is brilliant, once you just understand a little of its
workings i gurantee you'll find it good.
 
ps. this is not a poke at freebsd (another brilliant system), i just
felt like typing.. :)
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Martin Laukkanen (random at sectoid.org) 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Matt Pearce [mailto:mattpearce at optushome.com.au] 
	Sent: Monday, 8 July 2002 12:27 PM
	To: melbourne wireless
	Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] *nix system for begginers
	
	
	Hi All,
	 
	Just thought I would put this recommendation out for all of you
have are playing with wireless gear and want to setup a *nix (Linux,
Unix etc) based os.  I would have to personally recommend FreeBSD.  I
had been playing unsuccessfully with Red Hat for about a year + now with
nothing really to show for it.  And after a recommendation from Andrew
Dean(user on the MW list) I had a look at FreeBSD.  From there it was
mostly downhill.  You can set it up relativly easy and there is full
documentation on the basics that you can download, and by full
documentation I mean it is the electronic version of the manual they
sell in shops worth about $80 and its free online.
	 
	There is also a guide on how to setup wireless cards in an AP
(they use onrinocco's for the example) which is rather straight forward.
I have even found that compiling the Kernel is very easy and the syntax
is fairly clear for the commands.
	 
	It has X-Windows in it but I havnt touched it and thus cant make
any recommendations about it.  Below are a few links that people might
find helpful
	 
	FreeBSD Web Site:
	 
	www.freebsd.org
	 
	Good Austalian Download Site: (I can get 700kB/sec from here
with optus cable :-) )
	 
	http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/
	 
	The FreeBSD Handbook
	 
	
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
	 
	AP Setup Guide
	 
	http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm
	 
	Hope this helps someone out there and if you need any help email
me and I will see what I can do
	 
	Matt.
	 
	 
	 

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