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Is there a way to create a command alias in my doas.conf so that I can refer all commands defined there at once? Right now I'm setting a line for each session/power command (halt, logout, reboot etc). I've read the man page for doas.conf but haven't found anything similar.
I can download and run random oriental pornographic video games without issue on my GNU desktop. BSD users cannot say the same.
Colton Perry
Tard here, what's different bewteen NetBSD and FreeBSD
Cameron Evans
That's fucking adorable. Gonna install openbsd on one of my toughbooks when I get home.
Jordan Long
They're completely separate operating systems that both forked from the same OS around 25 years ago
Colton Barnes
What about ghostbsd?
Chase Morgan
Its based on TrueOS which is based on FreeBSD.
While its a pretty solid setup, I find I don't like most of their default software. (And there is a lot of it)
Ryan Reyes
I'm sorry to hear that. I can run it on a 2(4) core i3 with 8GB and it's slow but still usable. On an i7 with 16GB it's not slow at all. I rarely see it use more than 2GB, so RAM probably has very little to do with the speed. I also enable hyperthreading and disable any power management CPU throttling.
Maybe try True-OS or GhostBSD - those are versions of FreeBSD optimized for desktop/laptop use and they come with a desktop environment.
Colton Ortiz
Did you just give Chad fucking nigger lips? There's a reason nobody uses black BSD. We don't want nigger-ware.
Justin Price
I been using linux/gnu for long time, what can i get with bsd systems, and which one should i try first?
Jacob Nelson
OpenBSD because it's the only one that tries to be different from Linux.
Michael Hernandez
>puffer fish >puffy lips I don't see the issue
Brody Bailey
Came to post this. This will be the 26th general to filter
Joshua Bailey
So you admit it's an anti white operating system?
Daniel Williams
Puffer fish are white and based
Lincoln Stewart
No
Eli Brooks
>2) Dual boot the BSD distribution of your choice along with Windows or GNU/Linux.
Last time I looked into this, it involved following every instruction in a massive text file.
Is it still this retarded, or does it have a GUI installer now, which partitions up the drive automatically, like GNU/Linux has had for about 15 fucking years now?
Justin Green
Picked up this OpenBSD shirt at the last convention in Canada. Thoughts?
I've been looking to get into NetBSD and I've already installed jt once but it was unbearably slow in the command line and pkgin also took its sweet darned time: over four hours for an entire MATE desktop with decent net speed.
Tell me more.
Joseph Thompson
Just personal preference, here's a comparison of the main BSDs in-case you want more information to help AID your choice en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_systems Ive never had any issues with NetBSDs speeds, especially not installation speeds, I used to be on poo internet and I installed XFCE (dont ask why) fairly quickly
Jace Powell
One of the things that sucks about NetBSD is that very few people use it and it's hard to find answers to questions online.
Brayden Hernandez
Don't bother dual booting a BSD.
Colton Evans
I want to add a dual booted freebsd partition to my gentoo rig but my desktop's wifi card isn't supported by freebsd. What are some wifi dongles that'll be supported. and no, I can't just use ethernet. I live in student housing and it's almost like they don't want us to be able to compute freely via ethernet
Logan James
It's easiest to just buy a supported wifi card for $15
Jordan Morgan
Installing refind and just using that will make your life 100% easier since it autofinds installed systems.
Joseph Cooper
Just run BSD on top of Linux and QEMU that way you can spoof a supported network device.
Joseph Morgan
>the only good general >it's constantly shitposted to death by epic license memers hell i didn't read the thread and i'm sure someone already did it
Henry Adams
they have a list of supported usb dongles on the wiki, right? iirc there are a few tp-link wifi dongles that work openbsd doesn't behave nicely in a VM and freebsd has it's own issues. I'd rather just run it on metal source: ran both under qemu and it wasn't as easy as on metal
David Ortiz
anyone know if OpenBSD (or any BSD) works well on a Sony VAIO Pro ? any way to find out without trying to install it and finding out what's broken?
