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To be honest, I think OpenBSD is ahead on some fronts (research on security mechanisms, for instance), but the reason that I tend to use FreeBSD is that it actu
by ObviousScience 11y ago
To be honest, I think OpenBSD is ahead on some fronts (research on security mechanisms, for instance), but the reason that I tend to use FreeBSD is that it actually works with software packages.
So the computers are based on FreeBSD (which manages the hypervisor -- and soon container daemon!), and appliances only are based on OpenBSD.
Compatibility ftw.
- noinsight 11y ago> it actually works with software packages. Well I don't know about that. I can't open Settings in Chromium at all anymore, the whole browser crashes. It also constantly uses 100% CPU for something so with Chromium open my load is always >1. In VirtualBox none of the file open dialogs work. If I switch to a console from X the whole screen glitches and gets stuck, I have to SSH in to restart/stop X. Suspend doesn't work for me. So yeah, it doesn't work on the desktop as well as Linux does. Haven't had any problems with it as a server though.
- swills 11y agoThe Chromium issue was fixed recently. Try updating your Chromium to at least 43.0.2357.132. The VirtualBox issue is long standing, it's caused by the fact that vbox is setuid. Try this: env KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1 VirtualBox
- noinsight 11y agoThanks, that fixed it.
- not_with_retard 11y agoIt's amazing what you can do if you actually use Google.
- X-Istence 11y agoThere is a bug in the kernel that returns the wrong error message when Chrome/Chromium attempts to get a variable. This will be fixed in 10.2. See: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/619969753566744576 https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/619969753566744576
- kev009 11y agoVirtualbox - sounds like some kind of ports problem, maybe GTK vs Qt? Works for me on PC-BSD and FreeBSD -CURRENT under KDE. Suspend/resume should be working pretty well in -CURRENT, unfortunately 11.0 is still a ways out if you want a -RELEASE.
- swills 11y agoOh and about the X thing, do you have a Haswell processor? And are you using the VGA driver for X? I had that, bought a $20 ATI card, works fine now, 3D acceleration in KWM and everything.
- noinsight 11y agoSandy Bridge actually, i7 2600k. I have an ATI card too, I might try that. Wasn't too sure how well those work on FreeBSD.
- ams6110 11y agoI use OpenBSD and haven't found software to be an issue. Certainly mainstream stuff such as Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, Evince, Gimp, Inkscape... all works.
- gonzo 11y ago> research on security mechanisms, for instance) Citation(s) requested.
- alsetmusic 11y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_systems#OpenBSD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_...
- sydney6 11y agohttp://youtu.be/OXS8ljif9b8 http://youtu.be/OXS8ljif9b8 Edit: First 5 Minutes De Raadt speaks about Mitigation Techniques in comparison to other OSs, including FBSD. I fear, this is still true in mid-2015..
- jorgecastillo 11y agoThe only piece of software I really miss on OpenBSD is the Android SDK, other than that it has everything I use and it works great. So once again I want to tell everyone reading this, if you haven't tried it and if your hardware is supported I invite you to give OpenBSD a spin.
- noinsight 11y agoI've been looking at OpenBSD but the partitioning setup (fdisk) is off-putting. Why are we counting heads/tracks/cylinders in 2015? Also, the labeling thing is weird but I could live with that.