BSD And Other Things

I'll bite.

How does hardware support compare to linux?
How is BSD on laptops?
Will we be getting any more OpenBSD release songs?

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why should I BSD when I'm comfy on Arch

>>58966322
Just quit shitposting already.

>>58966351
It's lacking. If your hardware is supported it's normally well supported though.

>>58966528
Because you want to. If you're content with Arch then stick with Arch.

>>58966351

Buy what *BSD developers are using and you will save lots of time and money.

>>58966639
Why do you regularly go out of your way to shitpost? Just add "BSD" to your filter already and get on with your pathetic life.

>Potential Linux switchers welcome.

If they know what the fuck they are doing they would have abandoned linux around zero page fiasco and that was almost decade ago.

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>>58966313
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>58966695
Full-fledged autism.

>>58966313
Why switch to BSD? Also whats the best BSD version?

>>58966695

>gcc -> llvm/clang
>gcc-libs -> libcxxabi + libunwind
>glibc -> musl
>libstdc++ -> libcxx

Feels good to use gentoo.

>>58966704
X W I N D O W
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come on man I've only read like 2 chapters of a unix book and could tell you that

>>58966639
god damn you must be a psycho

>>58966772
Quit shitting the thread up, the Linux circlejerk is over there >>>/g/fglt

>>58966810
Why don't you post something useful about *BSD instead of molesting crybaby even harder?

>>58966828
I don't need to post shit, bitch.

>>58966837
Eat a dick, you fucking twat.

>>58966882
Nah, I'm done. I just like to get a couple replies so the mods have a nice pile of reports.

Why should I partition my disk??
I have a machine I want to zero out openbsd recommends sysreqs fits the ram requirements I have better but it sounds destructive to a hdd while freebsd isn't documenting this in any of the faq I read and I can probably find the right ramchips to fit that if I'm patient.

>>58966921
what

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>>58966313
WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE.

I put OpenBSD on a 120gb SSD, but whenever I try and install a package, I get this "Errno 28", meaning I have no space left in /usr. I used the default partition layout in the install, did I mess something up?

Or is my SSD just weird/need to be reformatted?

Any help would be appreciated, attaching an image so you actually read my post.

>>58966947
account for how big your hard drive actually is

you don't HAVE to use the default layout, you know

you can even put everything under /

>>58966946
License wars are literal insanity, just stop.

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>>58966955
Alright thats what I figured. It was just weird to me that it got filled up so quickly.

>>58966593
What are OpenBSD devs using? I looked it up on their website and found nothing.

>>58966754
Doesn't Portage enforce GCC though?

>>58967091
ThinkPads and Latitudes seem to be the two best choices

>>58966935
Freebsd recommends partitioning the disk for files so it runs faster. Openbsd mentions partitioning the disk to set files to read only because it can kill the disk reading and writing over the same spots.
Is this really necessary?? do they both do that?

>>58967112
not sure if the FFS implementation is exactly the same or if the freebsd advice was for ZFS

doesn't the latter rule apply to everything though?

>>58967105

There's WIP branch that uses LLVM/Clang as base compiler. It won't be publicly available until LLVM/Clang can compile linux kernel but I patched my kernel source code so it's working olkish for me.

>>58967124
I don't even know if I could get a FFS partitions to run on it since it's a 32bit processor it was recommending a MBR partition scheme for that.

I wouldn't know about the later rule applying to everything part of why I been jumping into linux and bsd is learning about this stuff, more about how stuff works. I don't think I've ever run into that problem with mac or windows before, mac was just out of date. Windows usually runs into a psu serial murder spree when the machines going out, never had a hdd failure.

>>58967290
Partitions and partition tables are two separate things. Regardless of selecting MBR or GPT you can use FFS or ZFS

>>58967317
>are two separate things
??
god damnit now im gonna be up all night reading

>>58967374
Why? All you need to know is that you're going to use MBR for your partition table and either ZFS or FFS for your partitions.

>>58966754
Have you experimented with using Gentoo/FreeBSD?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cofKxtIO3Is