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Contemplating moving my main laptop from ubuntu to openbsd...
Has anyone tried doing so. dropping all os's for openbsd? What do you miss and what do you appriciate bing all open sourced? |
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Hi jjennings089 and welcome !
So far I haven't missed anything vital since I migrated from Win/Mac to OpenBSD .. it's king as firewall .. but KING as well as a workstation/desktop .. Going opensource means being freer, but going BSD means being cooler, more secure .. more enlightened :-) OpenBSD is a wonderful Operating system .. just go ahead , try it, use it, and don't tell anyone it's Free, Functional and Secure !! :-) |
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@jjennings089
I have done that with FreeBSD, but that is kinda different story as You asked for OpenBSD. Its also easier to do so on FreeBSD as there is VirtualBox available (and I use many systems within these virtual machines), on OpenBSD You are left with QEMU option only.
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Single-hearted OpenBSD
It works. My main desktop at home runs nothing else at all, never has. Laptop was able to run it, but OpenBSD couldn't run the webcam, so I reverted it. It's still handy to have a Windows box for flash from time to time, although the get_flash_videos script has given OpenBSD amazing progress.
Frankly, if flash played nicer and the laptop camera would work, I'd never run anything else at home. I love the cleanliness. |
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I do this because I like role separation- I can have two firewalls, two DNS/time/radius servers, a file server, and five to eight experimental servers all running on two physical machines; they all run OpenBSD.
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I know Theo's opinion on virtualization, but as BHyVe is BSD licensed maybe some day it will even find a way into the OpenBSD base
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A virtual always gets its network traffic from the host's network stack. If your firewall is a virtual, the firewall's physical host is not behind it. |
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Another crack on vms: recently I saw a discussion claiming that virtualbox and some (non-enterprise?) versions of vmware don't pay real attention to fsync. I didn't fully understand the discussion but it sounded as if any OS on top of either effectively had file systems that were option async whatever their real mount options were. I don't have much use for virtual machines normally, but reading this made me all the more skeptical.
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In my experience, the specifics of your hardware and your need for proprietary formats has a huge impact on choosing a windows alternative. There has been significant OpenBSD-current progress in openjdk/icedtea-web but it is too early to say that java apps will run as well in OpenBSD as FreeBSD or Linux. You can search the forum for discussions on Flash videos and the alternatives.
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The icedtea-web binary has just undergone several recent updates (1.2 -> 1.3 -> 1.3.1).
OpenBSD-ports I was getting a fair number of firefox core dumps and am awaiting the latest patch from my 2nd tier snapshot server. I had good luck with the older jre/jdk that I built from ports but it was such a PITA (and security hole) that I gave it a pass. If openjdk/icedtea-web is more stable I hope to figure out how to temporarily enable in firefox when needed. Anyone know if there is something like flashblock plugin? To answer my own question NoScript Last edited by shep; 15th November 2012 at 07:11 PM. Reason: Added NoScript link |
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I'm all in. I installed 5.1 configured my desktop and promptly upgraded to 5.2, you're responsible for upgrading your desktop, so when I updated to 5.2 from disk, it re-installed the core and my desktop popped up just fine, then I had to upgrade my applications via pkg_add. pkg_delete is cool too and includes the option of bringing your install back to core, by default it doesn't delete your configuration files, but the option is there if you want.
I use the BlackBox window manager, I'm not sure about Gnome or KDE. Blackbox has great documentation. With blackbox, firefox, gnash, and mplayer I can download and listen to music from my Amazon account if I download my songs one at a time. The gnash package crashes a bit when visiting Youtube, but NoScript and FlashBlock both work. I like Blackbox and OpenBSD together because with Blackbox you absolutely have to read the documentation and I think that mindset compliments OpenBSD quite well. |
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Welcome, vanGrimoire!
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I switched from linux to OpenBSD since version 4.7 and never looked back. I am running 5.2 i386 (release) on my Thinkpad R61. Everything works, even suspend. Simply awesome. If you willing give up few things like flash then OpenBSD is a great choice.
I like it a lot |
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I've been running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 on my desktop and laptop but didn't feel like I was utilizing them both to the full extent and installed OpenBSD 5.2 on my PC last night. I had it installed briefly a few months ago but the difference in the OpenBSD ports system way of doing things put me off and I didn't leave it installed long enough to really get the hang of it before I switched back to FreeBSD.
I feel much more at home with it this time around. I ran into a couple problems along the way (not enough space alloted to /usr for the ports I wanted to compile) but am compiling the last of my programs now and am just about ready to boot into Fluxbox for the first time. I probably won't be converting my laptop over any time soon, but am pretty happy with the way things have gone so far. I'm comfortable enough with FreeBSD to get things done and am going to stick with it till I get more familiar with the OpenBSD way of doing things, though I might have to ask a question or two along the way. |
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Trihexagonal
Why using ports??? "pkg_add" works fine. In most cases packages works just nice. I did not came across yet that I need use ports on OpenBSD. If I remember correctly packages are preferred method to install in OpenBSD. |
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