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Message-ID: <417E617E.3010101@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:38:54 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hello? Anybody there?
misiu_ wrote:
> Hi,
> how do I install openvpn or so. I mean, I read that there is "rpm" as
> packetmanagement. I know now different management solutions like "swup",
> "apt-get", "emerge", "yum". It is good and easy to make it like that. On
> Trustix its swup --install packetname.
> To be serious, I had a lot of problems installing owl 'cause the docu is
> not clear to me. I'm not really a beginner nor I'm an expert.
> Right now my Firewall is "trustix" 'cause they will charge sooner or
> later money, I'm looking for another distro. So for me it's openwall or
> "TinySofa". Nothing else I've found until now. A lot of people make
> Firewalls with SuSe Linux or RedHat, I go a different way.
> If people look at "Gentoo Linux" there is so much on docu and forums
> etc.
> Why is it not with owl? Time? money? people?
>
A combination of those, yes.
Owl is not a very old operating system so it doesn't have a great many
users. Usually, there are three kinds of contributors to an
opensource-project;
Developers (the Founding Father and a few of his friends at first, usually)
Testers (highly experienced users that doesn't exactly need
documentation and are often apt at pinpointing the bugs as well as just
noticing they exist).
Documentation writers (usually people who really want to contribute in
some way but doesn't have the programming skills required to write code).
When all this is done, you pretty much just have to sit back and wait
for the forums and user-created HOWTO sites to start popping up. Gentoo,
Debian, RedHat, Mandrake and other GNU/*/Linux-based distributions have
been around for a long time and has evolved faster due to not being as
thorough about code reviews as the Owl team.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@....se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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