Re: Which BSD?

From: Ted Unangst (tedu_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 11/27/03


Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:45:03 -0800

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Michel Talon wrote:

> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Bill Drennon <crazybill@drennon.org> wrote:
> > Does samba come in the OpenBSD 3.4 package or do we have to import it and
> > install it separately. Once Samba is installed, how is it started on
> > OpenBSD?
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/samba/
>
> However this doesn't seem to contain anything. Hence i suspect you would
> be happier using a mainstream BSD, that is either FreeBSD or NetBSD.
> It is never comfortable to use a system that has a handful of developers
> worldwide. Anyways samba works basically out of the box on FreeBSD.

probably would want the package
ftp://ftp/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/packages/i386/samba-X.Y.tgz
as that's a lot more useful than the cvs history of the port.

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