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Ive tried a BSD laptop before, and my concerns always boil down to the same nonsense...can anyone offer some advice?: - how do i read ext4/fat/etc usb sticks f
by nimbius 8y ago
Ive tried a BSD laptop before, and my concerns always boil down to the same nonsense...can anyone offer some advice?:
- how do i read ext4/fat/etc usb sticks from coworkers.
- is 3d or video support good with AMD?
- soundcard and full disk encryption? what about EFI boot?
- snazz 8y ago- reading ext4 is possible but hard (OpenBSD doesn’t support journaling filesystems); you’re better off with ext2 or FAT - video support with AMD GPUs is good, much better than NVIDIA - OpenBSD has a good sound stack that supports most audio systems - full disk encryption is easy to set up and mentioned in the article - UEFI and GPT work wonderfully on recent versions
- kotajacob 8y agoWhat's the reason for missing journaling file systems? Lack of developers? Design choice for code simplification? Security reasons? Or something else?
- trasz 8y agoI guess the same as with support for, say, NTFS, plus less incentive to work on it, since it’s less popular.
- trasz 8y agoSimilar with FreeBSD (use geli for encryption) and I believe ext4 read support works now.
- dredmorbius 8y agoIs there FS-wrapper support on OBSD?
- bitwize 8y agoNetBSD can read ext3/4 with a puffs filesystem driver... these days it can support ext4 extents natively as well, just not journalling. Puffs is the NetBSD version of FUSE, and there is even a FUSE-to-puffs adapter so you can mount FUSE filesystems under NetBSD.
- anthk 8y agoSO does OpenBSD with FUSE, and with NTFS you have ntfs-3g in ports.