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   Water Fountain to auanon   
   Re: Alternative OS Discussion   
   13 Oct 25 13:34:01   
   
   From: water@foun.tn   
      
   auanon  writes:   
      
   > I don't know how alternative it really is, but I've been running OpenBSD   
   > on my laptop for a good few months now. The best part is just how good   
   > it is. Literally everything, even my Expresscard Smart Card readers just   
   > works out of the box. It also has some really nice quality of life   
   > features for server use. My favourite is the Daily(8) system. Basically,   
   > every day, a cronjob will mail root with all of the changes to the   
   > system that happended that day, as well as any security issues (eg, bad   
   > permissions for system config files). Goes to show how good dogfooded   
   > software can be.   
   >   
   > On the more alternative side, someday soon(tm) I wanna setup a 9front   
   > cluster. Maybe on the next release...   
      
   I hear that OpenBSD can't handle emacs very well, though. Do you have   
   any experience with that?   
      
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