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Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

#32

Post by sylware »

brynet wrote: post #25
mhd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this hasn't changed recently, the two official compilers for OpenBSD are clang and gcc 4.2, the latter for some more obscure architectures unsupported by clang. The specific version is used because gcc changed its license after that, and I think this was before the C99 support of gcc was basically finished (4.5?). So technically speaking, it would sound possible, if such a large code base doesn't trigger various c…

The last attempt I'm aware of was over a decade ago now, at the time there was some interest in building the system (kernel+userland) with pcc (Portable C Compiler), ultimately LLVM/clang won out in the end. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20091228231142

so mostly clang then gcc.

Totally unable to compile without such grotesquely and absurdely massive c++ coded compilers like linux.

sad.

Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

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Post by mhd »

rascul wrote: post #20
mhd wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you remember what distro used to do this?

All of them that I can remember. Note that this is from the '90s. At some point they all merged the X stuff into /usr. Maybe it was with the x.org switch, as XFree86 does indeed mention /usr/X11R6 in the docs. https://xfree86.org/4.8.0/Install4.html#6

Ah, you meant as a directory. Sure, I remember that, I just thought you meant as a partition.

Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

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Post by protomyth »

thanatos519 wrote: post #3

Who still partitions like that???

You don't have to go to that extreme. Although, /usr/local should be its own partition for the wxallowed, and /var/log should be its own to keep some nasty logging from screwing everything up. I have a standard /, /home, /tmp, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /var/log. I also am a heretic so I also do /opt.

It actually isn't that hard. I do wish OpenBSD had a more robust filesystem. I switch to FreeBSD when I need a server with lots of storage.

[edit] the vultr install of OpenBSD only has / and /usr/local

Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

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Post by matrix12 »

csdvrx wrote: post #11
thanatos519 wrote: post #3

Who still partitions like that???

> Who still partitions like that??? Anyone using ZFS should! Since ZFS partitions are all taking from the available space of the pool, you can have as many partitions as you need, which is very practical for snapshots and diffs, or if you want to use the same pool for different hosts (=> use a different etc along with a few others like var/lib ) Look at the set of partitions I recommend on https://github.com/csdvrx/z…

ZFS runs on NetBSD, and FreeBSD. NOT OpenBSD.

Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

#37

Post by mhd »

sylware wrote: post #32
brynet wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last attempt I'm aware of was over a decade ago now, at the time there was some interest in building the system (kernel+userland) with pcc (Portable C Compiler), ultimately LLVM/clang won out in the end. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20091228231142

so mostly clang then gcc. Totally unable to compile without such grotesquely and absurdely massive c++ coded compilers like linux. sad.

Well, projects like the BSDs need a lot of platform support, where even LLVM is still lacking. You wouldn’t want a different compiler for each arch. There simply aren’t that many candidates.

Re: OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop

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Post by dysoco »

ogogmad wrote: post #28
INTPenis wrote: post #22

The word minimal often means minimalistic in appearance and resource use, what I want is minimal work. That's why I run default gnome.

Default KDE does more out of the box, and is very usable. Resource usage seems OK. I recommend it over Gnome. The only thing I liked about Gnome was the appearance, which was something purely superficial. (I don't use Linux anymore.)

I enjoy KDE more than Gnome nowadays but it's far from being more minimalistic; it has way too much options, applications, dropdowns, buttons, etc. compared to Gnome and pretty much any other DE.

It DOES run great though, but I think they'd do a good job by simplifying some aspects of it, too bad the community seems to be mostly opposed to that as they want KDE to remain a more power-user friendly desktop.

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