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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 ki

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.

ianai 4y ago
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.
- toyg 4y ago
  It'd probably help also if they could find a killer-app role. Currently it's a decent OS only for low-level devices like routers and firewalls, which are a fairly small part of the computing ecosystem (and even there, it has lost a lot of ground to OSes that exploit multithreading better, hence giving faster throughput). As an application-development platform there are roadblocks at every turn and no real use-case. The community is even hostile to not-C developers. It's a shame, because the simplicity and security are great.
  - cylinder714 4y ago
    >a decent OS only for low-level devices Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? My 2011 ThinkPads run Firefox and LibreOffice just fine. It's not as polished as Fedora, sure, but I never have to reinstall after upgrading trashes grub, which happened to me earlier this year.
    - toyg 4y ago
      It's not a smear, it's a realistic assessment of its market position. And I say that as someone who likes it.
    - nix23 4y ago
      >Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? Because they never used it on a Desktop for a extended time, however i use FreeBSD and can play any Game Linux can...thanks to Proton. Fedora polished? Ever seen those SELinux problems after updates?
- nix23 4y ago
  If a admin comes to me and tells me he understands Linux but is not capable of learning any BSD...kick in the butt and goodbye. Don't search for Linux-Admins but real ones..the one's who are also capable to maintain Windows, and if they have no clue they start to learn.
  - ianai 4y ago
    As that guy where I work, agreed.
lizknope 4y ago
I miss seeing Sun SPARCstations boot. The Sun logo and the black text on white screen was always cool to me. https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparcboot.jpg https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparcboot.jpg
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  That link doesn't work for me, it looks like they prevent hot linking images
  - volkadav 4y ago
    For what it's worth, appears to be from this page: https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm Agreed that the old Sun hardware was pretty classy. :) They went through a number of different boot logos: https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos (I think my favorite was the CG6 framebuffer one, though I'm probably dating myself quite a bit with that opinion, haha).

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.

ianai 4y ago

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.

toyg 4y ago
It'd probably help also if they could find a killer-app role. Currently it's a decent OS only for low-level devices like routers and firewalls, which are a fairly small part of the computing ecosystem (and even there, it has lost a lot of ground to OSes that exploit multithreading better, hence giving faster throughput). As an application-development platform there are roadblocks at every turn and no real use-case. The community is even hostile to not-C developers. It's a shame, because the simplicity and security are great.
- cylinder714 4y ago
  >a decent OS only for low-level devices Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? My 2011 ThinkPads run Firefox and LibreOffice just fine. It's not as polished as Fedora, sure, but I never have to reinstall after upgrading trashes grub, which happened to me earlier this year.
  - toyg 4y ago
    It's not a smear, it's a realistic assessment of its market position. And I say that as someone who likes it.
  - nix23 4y ago
    >Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? Because they never used it on a Desktop for a extended time, however i use FreeBSD and can play any Game Linux can...thanks to Proton. Fedora polished? Ever seen those SELinux problems after updates?
nix23 4y ago
If a admin comes to me and tells me he understands Linux but is not capable of learning any BSD...kick in the butt and goodbye. Don't search for Linux-Admins but real ones..the one's who are also capable to maintain Windows, and if they have no clue they start to learn.
- ianai 4y ago
  As that guy where I work, agreed.

lizknope 4y ago

I miss seeing Sun SPARCstations boot. The Sun logo and the black text on white screen was always cool to me. https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparcboot.jpg https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparcboot.jpg

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
That link doesn't work for me, it looks like they prevent hot linking images
- volkadav 4y ago
  For what it's worth, appears to be from this page: https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm Agreed that the old Sun hardware was pretty classy. :) They went through a number of different boot logos: https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos (I think my favorite was the CG6 framebuffer one, though I'm probably dating myself quite a bit with that opinion, haha).