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I started playing with OpenBSD 6.3 as a desktop (actually laptop) OS a couple of months ago. Installation was very straightforward. In my case I used the whole

I started playing with OpenBSD 6.3 as a desktop (actually laptop) OS a couple of months ago. Installation was very straightforward. In my case I used the whole disk, no dual boot. Here's a tribute/introduction written by Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/openbsd https://sivers.org/openbsd As for my own experience, I don't know if I'm ready to give up Debian as my primary desktop OS, but I really like OpenBSD on my coding-or-surfing-on-the-couch laptop. On the server side, I also use both (as VPS) for personal projects.

keithpeter 8y ago
I've just improvised my way through a netBSD install on an old thinkpad X60 with 1Gb ram and a mechanical hard drive, whole disk, defaults mostly. Seems generally quite similar to OpenBSD (which makes sense given OpenBSD is a fork from netBSD). $PKG_PATH is set up but commented out in the .profile for root. I'm going for a light window manager and Seamonkey and a few bits and pieces to see how the land lies.
- keithpeter 8y ago
  Alas, can't install many packages, dependency errors. Example below for texlive-collection-all fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 29 fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 29 fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0 pkg_add: no pkg found for 'tex-pgf-[0-9]*', sorry. pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgf-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgfplots-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-milog-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency texlive-collection-langgerman-[0-9]* pkg_add: 1 package addition failed This could just be mirror flakiness, $PKG_PATH is resolving to http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/8.0/All There appears to be no native binary for LibreOffice. Investigating.
  - rjsw 8y ago
    Building packages can't start until the final release build of the base Operating System has been done, things like LibreOffice depend on a lot of other things. Maybe check again in a couple of days.
    - keithpeter 8y ago
      Cool, will try again in a bit. Looking very interesting so far.
- nucleardog 8y ago
  > (which makes sense given OpenBSD is a fork from netBSD) ... Over 20 years ago. Over almost the exact same time period NeXTSTEP became OSX. Any similarities are probably more coincidental or due to on-going borrowing from each other than to do with the fact that one is forked from the other.

keithpeter 8y ago

I've just improvised my way through a netBSD install on an old thinkpad X60 with 1Gb ram and a mechanical hard drive, whole disk, defaults mostly. Seems generally quite similar to OpenBSD (which makes sense given OpenBSD is a fork from netBSD). $PKG_PATH is set up but commented out in the .profile for root. I'm going for a light window manager and Seamonkey and a few bits and pieces to see how the land lies.

keithpeter 8y ago
Alas, can't install many packages, dependency errors. Example below for texlive-collection-all fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 29 fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 29 fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0 pkg_add: no pkg found for 'tex-pgf-[0-9]*', sorry. pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgf-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgfplots-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-milog-[0-9]* pkg_add: Can't install dependency texlive-collection-langgerman-[0-9]* pkg_add: 1 package addition failed This could just be mirror flakiness, $PKG_PATH is resolving to http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/8.0/All There appears to be no native binary for LibreOffice. Investigating.
- rjsw 8y ago
  Building packages can't start until the final release build of the base Operating System has been done, things like LibreOffice depend on a lot of other things. Maybe check again in a couple of days.
  - keithpeter 8y ago
    Cool, will try again in a bit. Looking very interesting so far.
nucleardog 8y ago
> (which makes sense given OpenBSD is a fork from netBSD) ... Over 20 years ago. Over almost the exact same time period NeXTSTEP became OSX. Any similarities are probably more coincidental or due to on-going borrowing from each other than to do with the fact that one is forked from the other.