>
>
> It's one case of `You can't have your cake and eat it too'. You either get
> a reliable system, or a fool's systems with more bullets to shoot yourself
> in the foot than you would wish for. I've worked with the second category
> of systems. I know why I prefer the OpenBSD approach.
>

There is a great deal of wisdom in this statement.

I do not run sendmail or bind. But the products I do use present problems to
ship them in a binary package. I would rather see OpenBSD given to a newbie
in a sane state after installation than having someone fumble around trying
to get a MTA working off of a HotMail account.

There are enough newbie questions here and on the Qmail and djbdns mailing
lists to not want to inflict this task on someone converting from Windows98.
While BIND and Sendmail have problems they are, at present, standard *nix
software.

As people learn how to do things they can remove the things they no longer
desire.

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