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Good bye Linux, Hello OpenBSD! :)

Originally posted by: LNXman
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Article [Low End PC
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Linkie no workie. . . I fixie. . .

Low End PC


DOH!!!! Why he picking on Slackware? It is not THAT user friendly. . . 🙁
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Thanks for the fix. Thats happened before but last time I tried to recreate the problem (to see if it was me or the forums) it didnt work 😛

slackware was the first linux distro I felt comfortable with. I learned on that better than RedHat or Mandrake.
 
slackware was the first linux distro I felt comfortable with. I learned on that better than RedHat or Mandrake.
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AH, so the article is yours . . . But I thought you were a core OpenBSD user who just played around with slackware. . .
 
Originally posted by: LNXman
slackware was the first linux distro I felt comfortable with. I learned on that better than RedHat or Mandrake.
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AH, so the article is yours . . . But I thought you were a core OpenBSD user who just played around with slackware. . .
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The article isnt mine.

My history😛 :

Started with RH at about 5.1/5.2, moved to slackware 7.0. I liked slackware and stuck with that for a while until I needed to do a reinstall and felt lazy so I didnt want to upgrade slack. Installed Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1. Didnt like it much. Went back to FreeBSD (which I had played with here and there for a few releases, but never seriously) for a short time before trying OpenBSD. Fell in love 🙂
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Started with RH at about 5.1/5.2, moved to slackware 7.0. I liked slackware and stuck with that for a while until I needed to do a reinstall and felt lazy so I didnt want to upgrade slack. Installed Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1. Didnt like it much. Went back to FreeBSD (which I had played with here and there for a few releases, but never seriously) for a short time before trying OpenBSD. Fell in love 🙂
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Gotcha . . . I only played with FreeBSD once a long while ago, never got into it, but still have the cd's just in case I get back the feeling of checking it out again . . . 😉

Probably won't happen 'till I get a job . . .
 
Originally posted by: LNXman
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Started with RH at about 5.1/5.2, moved to slackware 7.0. I liked slackware and stuck with that for a while until I needed to do a reinstall and felt lazy so I didnt want to upgrade slack. Installed Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1. Didnt like it much. Went back to FreeBSD (which I had played with here and there for a few releases, but never seriously) for a short time before trying OpenBSD. Fell in love 🙂
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Gotcha . . . I only played with FreeBSD once a long while ago, never got into it, but still have the cd's just in case I get back the feeling of checking it out again . . . 😉

Probably won't happen 'till I get a job . . .
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I still havent canceled my FreeBSD subscription... So Ive got cds from 3.0 through 4.5 or whatever the latest is. Many of them havent even been taken out of the shrink wrap. OpenBSD just seemed to be easier and cleaner.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey


I still havent canceled my FreeBSD subscription... So Ive got cds from 3.0 through 4.5 or whatever the latest is. Many of them havent even been taken out of the shrink wrap. OpenBSD just seemed to be easier and cleaner.
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Woah, maybe I should buy a more recent distro of FreeBSD if I want to check it out. . . Thanks for the info.
 
Originally posted by: LNXman
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey


I still havent canceled my FreeBSD subscription... So Ive got cds from 3.0 through 4.5 or whatever the latest is. Many of them havent even been taken out of the shrink wrap. OpenBSD just seemed to be easier and cleaner.
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Woah, maybe I should buy a more recent distro of FreeBSD if I want to check it out. . . Thanks for the info.
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If you have bandwidth, download an iso or do an ftp install. Its pretty easy and you dont have to spend money on something you may never use.
 
speaking of "Low end" and "OpenBSD", i was going to install OpenBSD on my 386 (irc/netris/links or lynx machine, perhaps other things), but i accidentally deleted the ISO i made before burning it, and now i dont have a burner anymore :/

perhaps i'll whip out my floppy drive (shudder) and do it that way.
 
I hated freebsd 4.4... largely because its version of X didn't support my video card. and instead of /dev/hdx for drives (where x is intuitive), it used something else instead of "hd" so I made lots of typos 😉.

how much better is openBSD?
 
Originally posted by: CTho9305
I hated freebsd 4.4... largely because its version of X didn't support my video card. and instead of /dev/hdx for drives (where x is intuitive), it used something else instead of "hd" so I made lots of typos 😉.

how much better is openBSD?
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Just like linux, its as better as you make it. I thought OpenBSD was cleaner and simpler than FreeBSD and Linux. Maybe Im a freak, but thats just the way I see it.

Harddrives are (IDE): wd0 for the first ide drive, wd1 for the second. wd0a for the first partition on the first ide drive. sd for scsi instead of wd.

One thing I dont like about OpenBSD as far as hard drive numbering/lettering that linux has under control is that OpenBSD will skip blank spots. If I have a primary master (wd0) and a secondary master (wd1) and add a primary slave, the slave would become wd1 pushing the secondary master to wd2. Linux would automatically account for that blank spot and number the drives accordingly. Ive had to do an emergency fstab edit because of that little "problem" there 😉
 
that is bad on BSD's part - they probably consider it a good thing 😉. well, it might be good if you dont swap hardware frequently... but I do.
 
Originally posted by: CTho9305
that is bad on BSD's part - they probably consider it a good thing 😉. well, it might be good if you dont swap hardware frequently... but I do.
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Its not a huge problem really, just one you have to keep in mind. The only reason I needed to do an emergency fstab edit was because it moved critical partitions on the secondary master to wd3 and that just messed it up. As long as you know about the problem you can make sure you dont fall "victim" to it.

Plus, OpenBSD is one of those things you setup and just let it run. Unless of course you do development 😛

I keep track of my power outages by my uptimes. 25 days since the last power outage 🙂
 
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