Re: a new BSWare

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> We had one gent at the KLUG meeting tonight who used openBSD for his
> firewall/gateway. His phrase for it was "most obscure." :)

Slashot uses *BSD firewalls, so they must be pretty good.  Supposedly 
it has a significantly better IP stack, I'd be very interested on a 
presentation about the BSDs.

>>The installer has been infallible for me but the purpose of a 
distribution
>>is to bring things together, and it seems I have to bring more and 
more
>>together myself as time goes on.  The config tools have not kept up 
with
>>the advertised features, LDAP for example, they said they support 
it, but
>>try and do that without manually installing RPMS, or try to find a 
single
>>shred of documentation on how.
>Are you perhaps simply moving ahead of the curve? :)

No, I'm using a "integrated" feature.  Apparently "integrated" means 
you got it to compile.  Wow, my rant factor has been pretty high the 
last few days, time to lay off the caffiene.

>>I've tried Mandrake but experienced some strange compatibility 
issues.
>I had a friend who was using this. I'll ask him.