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I was telling my wife about the big 3 BSDs yesterday. I said the NetBSD guys come off like the ones who are having the most fun, since it mostly seems to I, an
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
I was telling my wife about the big 3 BSDs yesterday. I said the NetBSD guys come off like the ones who are having the most fun, since it mostly seems to I, an outsider, like they just want to port NetBSD to as many platforms as possible.
OpenBSD is what I have landed on ultimately to start learning, but man, I can't even get it running in Virtualbox correctly. Gonna try QEMU today.
EDIT: I got it working in VB after all! For anyone who stumbles across this and is on a Dell XPS, try switching the chipset in Settings > System to ICH9. Now time to write up a little checklist of little projects to try on it.
- hnlmorg 3y agoI think Dragonfly doesn’t get as much love as it deserves either. Some of the concepts they build are pretty darn innovative.
- mmphosis 3y agoAfter many years, I've got OpenBSD working. I think that the trick was booting from Legacy BIOS. I do like the minimalism.
- geraldhh 3y agocomment made my day, thx!
- dbtc 3y agoAnother option: check out vultr's $5/month openbsd VPS.
- n0n 3y agoOpenBSD also runs perfectly fine on Hetzner Cloud VMs.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoBoth great options, but I'm a local first kind of guy. If I can't get it running on a VM to experiment/create/destroy ad nauseum, I definitely am not gonna spin it up on a cloud versus a platform where I actually kind of know what I'm doing.