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Who csh here?
>>57252078
I used to use tcsh, switched to ksh a few years ago
>>57252107
I mostly use pdksh now, myself. I'm interested in learning more about csh though.
Are they any single board computers like a RPi which support & run a varient of BSD well?
>>57252513
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
>>57252513
netbsd also runs on it i believe
openbsd might be coming soon
i've been hearing all these things from the linux users that 'bsd is insecure' and whatnot, how much of it is actually true? can you confirm that freebsd does not verify its packages or audit ports?
>>57253067
It's all true.
>>57253067
OpenBSD is incredibly secure, they forced all their ports to use truly random functions.
Is fish shell adequate for BSD?
Does anyone use stable, release or, current? I like release because then you can use freebsdupdate instead of compiling everything. My shittylaptop doesn't like doing that so much
>>57253121
sh, csh, ksh, and tcsh are adequate
>>57252078
>>57252107
how useful are csh and tcsh, is the benefit just more "C-like" scripting or what? Legitimately asking.
BSD BSD BSD BSD BSD
>Install BSD
>"Let's get wifi working"
>look for drivers
>NODRIVERS for a 5+ year old NIC chip
Instantly go back to Linux.
Oh, the boot up time is like 2x longer than my ubuntu.
>>57252078
B-but it's Considered Harmful(TM)!
>>57254013
i only consider it harmful because no one uses it
has anyone here tried to compile emacs manually on openbsd here? i do that because i prefer the athena GUI
anyway, i can't seem to find a way to get it to recognize libpng, which means i need to turn it off when running the autotools, what gives?
>tfw you post on the openbsd mailing list and theo comes to your house personally to roast you
>>57252513
NetBSD has file system designed for flash memory
>>57255348
He's coming for you
>>57252513
running freebsd on my rpi as my irc client
>>57251564
Anyone using TrueOS? It's pretty comfy and free of GPL communism.
>>57258765
>free of communism
>implying that's a good thing
>>57258765
looks like dogshit desu
>>57258800
It's the default install environment you dip. It would look better with wallpaper.
>>57251564
GNU is nice, running GNU Emacs and GCC on my OpenBSD machine
>>57255378
Isn't netbsd still stuck with FFS?
>>57253406
They're both pretty nice, there's some issue that you can run into with them though. I've never ran into it, but it was around the time I switched to OpenBSD that I heard about it anyway and openbsd-pdksh was pretty nice. Now I use that on my OpenBSD systems and mksh on my Linux systems