Reply to post: Re: Citadel - takes about 20 minutes

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Nigel Whitfield.

Re: Citadel - takes about 20 minutes

Well, quite; you can install OpenBSD and add the packages used here in a pretty short space of time. And though some people will find using vi take a bit longer to edit config files than filling in some web forms, it doesn't actually take an awfully long time.

I don't think the process we showed here is massively involved really - but we did show it in stages, where pretty much each one leaves you with a working system, and hopefully at least an understanding of how everything fits together.

It may well be quicker to grab an off the shelf package that wraps everything up with wizards, but I think learning how the parts fit together is always a worthwhile exercise.

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