I want to move from Linux onto a BSD system, and after some digging I ended up with these two.
As much as I like pkgsrc, TRIM (running on a SSD), the portability aspect and the Linux compat layer (need it for DAWs/trackers and maybe some games), I also want better security, docs, support and more ports provided by OpenBSD.
Can you anons share your experiences with those BSDs?
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>>1228 Not OP, but I've also got this same question more or less. I've got an old 386 lying around from the 1990s and I want to install a unix-like OS on it to replace the macroshit dos trash that comes with it. I don't want Poo-in-the-loonix either because it would probably be unusably slow on such old hardware. Open or Net?
>>1235 I use OpenBSD as a server OS, and it's great. I don't know how well it would perform on your particular hardware and I've never used NetBSD. You may find it to be unreasonably slow no matter what OS you try, Anon.
>>1237 >You may find it to be unreasonably slow no matter what OS you try, Anon.
Oh of course, I know it's going to be slow. I just want the least slow option. I guess I'll try openbsd first since I'm more familiar with it.
>>1238 I highly doubt openbsd would run on a 386, unless you disable most security features. And this may be linux only, but isn't every distro i686+ nowadays ?
>>1248 >every distro i686+ nowadays
The kernel itself is 486+. I just did some brief research and openbsd is also 486+, so looks like netbsd may be mandatory (unless that computer is actually a 486 which might be possible, but I'll have to check). Even netbsd is 486+, so guess I'll just download an old version then. The machine has no networking capabilities whatsoever, so maybe I'll grab a copy of some really old openbsd version like 2.0 and see what happens
>>1238 If you're going for speed, then NetBSD is probably the fastest option, since it has better multithreading support and not as many security features as OpenBSD.
>>1228 OpenBSD is definitely superior if you want security. It has pledge(2) and unveil(2) which can be useful if you're developing secure applications.
OpenBSD is also more popular than NetBSD, so I'd say that netbsd is only useful if you want to install on exotic hardware.
>>1473 I forgot to mention that I struggle compiling w3m as it requires some GNU-related stuff. Currently I don't have a web-browser there and I'm using curl to download files. If you know about a basic CLI browser that'll compile easily without any GNU shit, please let me know.
>>1481 I'm aware of that. There's also this command:
[code]dmesg|egrep '([cswf]d). '[/code]
But they aren't as informative and simple as lsblk. Even FreeBSD's camcontrol is pretty garbage.
>>1482 I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to write a simple wrapper around those two commands which does the same thing as lsblk. It's just a matter of spending the time to do it.
Nobody's done it so far because lsblk is really just a minor convenience, not something absolutely necessary.
I want to move from Linux onto a BSD system, and after some digging I ended up with these two.
As much as I like pkgsrc, TRIM (running on a SSD), the portability aspect and the Linux compat layer (need it for DAWs/trackers and maybe some games), I also want better security, docs, support and more ports provided by OpenBSD.
Can you anons share your experiences with those BSDs?
>inb4 board subtitle