GP wrote:
> I'n presently using Slackware ans was thinking about giving OpenBSD a
> try when I found out there is no ISO. After a search at groups.google I
> found out that this was The Rat's way of making some money to finance
> development. The goal is just, but the way is plain stupid. I mean,
> there is no way I'm going to pay USD $40.00 just to find out if I like
> his stuff.
>
> If I was easyly allowed to check... and liked it, I would be glad to
> send him CAN $40 every second year afterward. But the guy seems so
> little confident in the quality of his product that he won't let you
> test it.
>
> I did find a site on the net where it is explained how to create an iso
> from the snapshot directory, which would go for the i386 directory just
> the same, I suppose. (Excuse me for not giving the url, as I suppose
> this would upset Mr The Rat and I certainly don't want to prevent him
> from keeping his distro to the happy few and, maybe, to the unhappy many.)
>
> But, I'm not sure I want to take the pain to try an OS that works in
> such a state of mind... mainly thinking I would then have to download
> every application I need one by one. Silly!
>
> My feeling is OpenBSD is going nowhere. Please, prove me wrong!
>
> GP
>
>
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Not using an operatingsystem just because it doesn't provide an .iso
file is just stupid. If you don't want to buy the cd just download the
os from any of the ftp mirrors. You can then burn a bootable cd from
those files or install it in any of the ways described in the docs on
www.openbsd.org.

If you want precompiled binaries of alot of apps there is also a
packages directory on the ftp's.

/Stefan