OpenBSD for Linux Users

It looks like this page isn't quite finished yet, but it looks promising! I may want to try OpenBSD one of these days. I have at least one friend who loves it and constantly tells me about how cool it is compared to Linux.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by Koshkin » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

smitty1e wrote: post #3

For those that truly cannot abide systemd, OpenBSD seems a great alternative.

But for those who want Linux, there’s always Slackware - the most BSD-like distribution out there.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by ianai » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #2

If only I had a use case. I boot it up on exotic and obsolete architectures, as they still do builds for eg. PPC64 (Apple Mac G5). The white framebuffer is kind of beautiful.

It’d probably help if it had a company like Red Hat offering enterprise support and contributing back to it. Knowledge certification helps a ton too. It’s all fun and games until the SME leaves and a company finds out how hard it is to hire another person with skills in that OS.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by LoganDark » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:15 PM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #5

smitty1e wrote: post #3

For those that truly cannot abide systemd, OpenBSD seems a great alternative.

But for those who want Linux, there’s always Slackware - the most BSD-like distribution out there.

Hey, I remember Slackware! It's great for hypervisors. UnRAID uses it.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by flatiron » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:18 PM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #4

It looks like this page isn't quite finished yet, but it looks promising! I may want to try OpenBSD one of these days. I have at least one friend who loves it and constantly tells me about how cool it is compared to Linux.

It’s great for specific applications but you would be hard pressed to say it’s a better desktop OS than a gnu Linux distro. Bluetooth is a pretty hard thing to miss.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by LoganDark » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:32 PM UTC

flatiron wrote: post #8

LoganDark wrote: post #4

It looks like this page isn't quite finished yet, but it looks promising! I may want to try OpenBSD one of these days. I have at least one friend who loves it and constantly tells me about how cool it is compared to Linux.

It’s great for specific applications but you would be hard pressed to say it’s a better desktop OS than a gnu Linux distro. Bluetooth is a pretty hard thing to miss.

I don't use Bluetooth. I even use my DualSense controller wired.

A true UNIX is hard to beat. I grew up with macOS and was devastated when my Mac broke & couldn't afford a new one. Been despising Windows for the past ~1.5 years. OpenBSD is nothing like macOS, but it is still UNIX.

Re: OpenBSD for Linux Users

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Post by ninjin » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #4

It looks like this page isn't quite finished yet, but it looks promising! I may want to try OpenBSD one of these days. I have at least one friend who loves it and constantly tells me about how cool it is compared to Linux.

I have found the official documentation to be excellent if you want to take it for a spin today: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html