OpenBSD no built-in list of available packages, and updates are not automatic or even schedulable.
"Installed" is well and good, but it still leaves you some work to do. Setting up the x.org X server, for instance, requires you to look up hardware specs for your equipment (some of which, such as my monitor's ReferenceClock frequency, I had never even heard of before), in contrast with the built-in database included with many Linux distributions today. If the information is close at hand, you will have no trouble, but be forewarned that the OS will not help you guess your way out of a jam.
-Isn't synaptic just a gui front-end to dpkg? One could be written for pkg_add.pkg_add itself lacks the convenient GUI of Synaptic or YUM but otherwise does a identical job.
- packages (wrt packages and ports) are binaries of third party software, and are not considered base.("packages" in BSD lingo refer to programs in the official binary release,
-OpenBSD uses pdksh instead of the official korn shelll due to licensing.such as the use of the Korn shell (ksh) instead of bash,
-I'm pretty sure they haven't gotten this far yet, just basic support.the ability to park the drive heads in response to the motion-sensitive "Active Protection System" in IBM Thinkpads,
Originally posted by: EatSpam
I use OpenBSD on my firewalls....no GUI, nothing fancy. It runs off of a 512mb flash module. It just works.
I could care less about this other stuff.