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Any cloud VPS service that provides ISO upload will allow you to use OpenBSD. Vultr has OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5 images pre-configured that you can get installed on
by snazz 7y ago
Any cloud VPS service that provides ISO upload will allow you to use OpenBSD. Vultr has OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5 images pre-configured that you can get installed on a VPS (I’m using a $3.50/mo one).
For an even better experience, try it on an old ThinkPad following this guide [0]. You might like how suspend/resume just works, how your brightness and volume hotkeys just work, how the documentation is awesome, and how all the software you need is just one pkg_add away. I’d say that, compared to Linux on the desktop, OpenBSD can be a much more cohesive experience without a desktop environment installed and without endless configuration for basic features.
[0]: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/ https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/
- fredsir 7y agoThanks, I'll check it out!
- pnutjam 7y agoIf you stick to a tried and true linux release, like OpenSuse, you can have this in Linux. I get excellent hardware support, zypper package management, and an excellent KDE environment.
- snazz 7y agoYou can certainly get the it-just-works with a big fat desktop environment like KDE, but if you don’t want that (I personally don’t like it that way), OpenBSD with a plain window manager Just Works better than the equivalent with Linux.
- pnutjam 7y agoXfce always works fine for me as well. OpenSUSE has yast for some configuration, it works identically via gui or ncurses.