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As regards understandability and minimising "magic boxes", this means it's pretty much just core OpenBSD (kernel & base system). The moment you add the usual de
by Santosh83 9y ago
As regards understandability and minimising "magic boxes", this means it's pretty much just core OpenBSD (kernel & base system). The moment you add the usual desktop environments or a huge monolith like Firefox, you've lost these benefits. Same with drivers. More drivers you have, more the system becomes byzantine. Keeping things minimal and well designed yet useful must be a continuing challenge for OpenBSD!
- kqr 9y agoHah. Going by the "anything you compile with a magic box becomes itself a magic box" argument, even the OpenBSD base is a magic box as soon as you run it on an x86 machine.
- anthk 9y ago1) I Think Firefox is already pledged. Firefox 57 is in current, built with Rust. 2) Nothing wrong with kernel and base. It provides the kernel, clang, X.org, documentation and BSD-games, among the rest of Unix tools. 3 The drivers are in base and NOT in a module form, as the GNU/Linux crap with incompatible vendor releases and binary blobs tied to a version.