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They are distributions of the BSD operating system, I.E. BSD distributions
Eli Martinez
GNU/Linux is OVER Year of the BSD desktop!
Ayden Johnson
definitely Linux nerds btfo to all eternity.
Joseph Moore
Reminder that OpenBSD is lacking the following things: >A robust filesystem such as ZFS, btrfs, or HAMMER2 >Any kind of journaling FS >SSD TRIM >NFSv4 >Support for more than one core on various parts of the OS. The firewall, pf, is confirmed to be one of these parts, although there may be more. >802.11ac networking >Nvidia graphics from this decade >AMD Vega graphics >Certain Intel graphics, at least judging from comparing the manpage to the wikipedia article >Broadcom wireless >Bluetooth >WINE >LUKS/dm-crypt >Linux compatibility layer >Mounting ext filesystems >free(1) >lsblk(8) >Proper virtualization (vmd/vmm is awful compared to KVM+QEMU or even Virtualbox) >and probably more
Reminder that GNU/Linux is: >maintained by idiots >slow in version 4.20 >full of normies who think they are cool cause they can install ubuntu >not anywhere as good as dragonflybsd
Jayden Cruz
i liked openbsd's default theme for fvwm so much that i tried to translate it to fvwm2
Luis Nelson
>green text is less than to the post being responded Get fucked retard.
Angel Russell
I havent used gnu/linux for more than a week so I dont have a list of things I particularly dislike about it
Michael Mitchell
BSDistribution Distributions
Elijah Evans
Berkeley Software Distribution is a UNIX distribution. There distributions of this UNIX distributions for smaller niches, or sub-distributions. In the end, they are still BSD distributions.
Nolan Morgan
Some Linux distros are certified UNIX. None of the BSDs are
Lucas Martin
>>full of normies OK fedoralord, whatever makes you feel special.
Christian Peterson
The only reason they arent certified is because the open group is still asshurt that berkeley "stole" the source code from at&t unix for bsd unix
Matthew Nelson
I hope this will fix my two finger touchpad scroll (or rather, the lack of it )
Henry Johnson
What? In a lot of documentation for OpenBSD, it explicitly states that it is NOT a BSD distribution. They just all have a common ancestor, but they don't necessarialy share any particular peice of software in common like a kernel
Mason Allen
Heyo, I'm a debfag wanting to escape the poz and how's Net or Open for a bsd beginner? I've heard many good things about Open but I also heard Net is the most unix-like (something i kind of look for). Also >muh retro windies games
OpenBSD is good for giving a second life to some oldtimer hardware like powerbook g4, etc.
But even this is not much reasonable because "new" intel stuff is dirt cheap.
Lenovo has 330s models with i3 (the same core2duo with bigger caches) and FHD IPS screens for less than $500. Good enough for running Emacs, watching pirated full hd movies under Linux with intel iHD drivers, and whatever it is.
OpenBSD neglected video drivers, so it lost any appeal.
Yeah, I dont use OpenBSD personally, FreeBSD stays up to date and there are a lot of distributions based on FreeBSD if you dont like FreeBSD itself NetBSD is also very good
They are very similar so it's all about personal preference. You gotta look into the benefits of both and find out which ones fits you better. I personally prefer BSD because it is more like UNIX than Linux is, BSD also tends to be more minimal and take up less resources. I only use my home computer for internet browsing, so if I can use an OS that uses as little of my system resources at idle as possible, I shall use it
Also, lets talk about security you so much proclaim. OpenBSD has a fucking backdoor Theo the Rat himself uses. The story about the FBI is known by now.
I want to run FreeBSD or TrueOS (old name: PC-BSD) as a secure host to do all my activity in Linux VMs.
Am I able to install KVM and Virtmanager as easy as on Linux (like Debian)? apt-get install virt-manager libvirt
Gabriel Bennett
Some idiot around here is tricking people by saying OBSD can replace Linux on the desktop just fine. I would take they be honest and say "hey, not everything will work but you can help us making it better", not lying like scammers.
Yeah, KVM has official FreeBSD support And if you are asking about package management, it's exactly like Debian apt-get install xfce4
On Debian is pkg install xfce4 On FreeBSD
Brody Green
>freebsd we're not talking about freebsd >fork bomb not exclusive to bsd fixed with a simple restart wouldn't even work because of kernel process limit
Nice projection. Now take your dank investment terminoligy back to your containment board. g is for people with IQs above room temperature
Jordan Roberts
Why the fuck is my friendly BSD thread so unfriendly GNU/Retards get out, you are upsetting everyone including yourselves
Matthew Cooper
Anyone tried OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi? I’m using QubesOS at the moment, but I want to get rid of Linux. But I really like the idea of Isolation, so I thought I just take 4-5 Raspberrys, each one for a single purpose.
I’ve read that OpenBSD runs ob ARM, but how well does it perform on a Raspberry?
Eli Lee
>no argument >resorts to buzzwords and insults like clockwork
this tranny shits up every bsd thread because theo doesn't tolerate retarded degenerates like linux does
Bentley Jackson
Why does everyone shit up these threads, its exactly why they havent taken off as much as Friendly GNU/Linux threads have
Camden Johnson
OpenBSD runs absolutely fine on Raspberry Pi I think NetBSD is what you are looking for though if you are planning to put BSD on a Pi
Nathaniel Lopez
New thread
Luke Foster
Well, I took my way through QubesOS with a reason, I take security really serious, also I like theo for not beeing retarded. But still thanks for your hint, I’ll still take a look at it, even if I’ll probably stay with OpenBSD :)
Aaron Myers
Well, thats what these threads are for Be sure to come back if you ever have any questions
