The title might sound weird but it's a reference to my Dec. 31st. :) post. Click the link to get to the post.
So after upgrading my boxes to FreeBSD and being generally happy with it, I had decided to try other BSDs just to get the hang of them as well. Ok, so I bought a copy of OpenBSD 4.1 when it was released. I had to reformat my disks anyways so I figured why not do it now. And so, I ended up with an OpenBSD install done in less than 15 minutes. From start to end. And I was rebooted into a bash prompt and ready to pkg_add my first few packages. Ok, I had to configure an environment variable and it took 5 minutes to find the exact value that I needed but all in all, in 20 minutes (maximum) I was up and running and I had all of the packages I needed installed. Including apache/php/mysql. All I needed to do now was configure the servers I wanted to run on boot and I was set. Took another 30 minutes +/- and presto. My server was back up and running like a charm. Only thing left to configure was my volume (what people know as IDE Software RAID). It has a specific name on OpenBSD and the documentation was a bit complicated to understand at first but once you got the hang of it, by modifying the examples just a little bit, you were good to go. Anyways, I stayed true to OpenBSD for two years. The only reason I migrated away from it was the fact that I couldn't upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 without a complete re-installation.
So being stuck to re-install anyways, I figured, I'd get back to good old Debian Testing. I still run an Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop though. So yeah, that's my Linux news for now.
