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1 • OpenBSD (by asphaltGraveyard on 2025-12-15 01:46:24 GMT from United States)
You can resize partitions from inside the OpenBSD installer if you read the prompts.
2 • Browsing websites with filters (by Slappy McGee on 2025-12-15 02:06:42 GMT from United States)
Firefox provides enough extensions to take care of my (only) need for a "filter," to remove or at least cut down on intrusive ads (ublock origin). Ads that get past that are filtered by other means.
As far as supporting sites I frequent I send money as I see fit. Many get revenue from click counting, page hits etc. The whole thing is stupid anyway. I should be outside more.
3 • OpenBSD (by K0-Z0 on 2025-12-15 02:49:11 GMT from United States)
OpenBSD as a desktop is possible but its default low-level configuration means you're getting security over leisurely desktop performance, which means media playback will be subpar because performance with such consumption just isn't the vanilla way of doing things. Standalone window managers work best with OpenBSD, but you're going to have to sacrifice protections for everyday web browser usage.
4 • OpenBSD (by Keith S on 2025-12-15 04:38:44 GMT from United States)
I am a long-time fan of OpenBSD and their philosophy. The first version I installed was 4.8, which was released 15 years ago. I used it as a daily driver for over five years, but always dual-booted with Windows and sometimes Linux for those things that it just would not be able to do. (Linux was pretty frustrating 15 years ago too but it has gotten a lot easier to use.)
Somewhere along the way I frankly got tired of fighting with dual booting whenever I changed machines, and I also became more intolerant of using Windows for certain things, and so I switched almost entirely to Linux. I have tried going back to OpenBSD more than once, including a recent trial of 7.8. For some reason I couldn't get WiFi to work (the drivers all downloaded correctly but wifi refused to connect) and I gave up pretty quickly.
It was mildly amusing to read about the difficulty running out of space in /usr/local, not because I wish that on Jesse or anyone else, but because it reminded me that I have a notebook with all of the partition sizes I have installed on OpenBSD over the years that I still refer to whenever I try it again. (Consults notes: always at least 16GB for /usr/local.) Also, fwiw, I know that at some point I understood why c always refers to the whole drive, but that knowledge is lost to the sands of time now. But there is a reason written down somewhere if you want to try to find it.
My security profile is different now than it was 15 years ago, so I worry less about the fact that Debian has 9495 CVEs compared to 348 for OpenBSD. But if security is what you're after, OpenBSD might be the better solution. Or Qubes, which is maybe as much of a pita as OpenBSD to get working right.
5 • OpenBSD wrong partition size (by We all float down on 2025-12-15 07:25:49 GMT from The Netherlands)
OpenBSD is a long time ago, but w.r.t. the wrong disklabel? choices I think I just rsynced /usr/local and replaced with a symlink to a bigger partition. Now I start to remember how slow it was, thanks a lot. For instance, after an upgrade the boot process was still slower because a new security/anti-feature was relinking libc or something like that, sigh. I disabled it at first, but then I thought, this clownware is only going to get worse over time, I don't want to fight it any more and just went back to Linux.
6 • Fedora AI demo gone wrong (by Lord Doofy Plus on 2025-12-15 07:50:50 GMT from The Netherlands)
It didn´t went all that wrong, but I think where it did: AI needs data input so it ¨learns" its ways through a lot of data and databases, but in this particular case we do have the all-time great, but generically called distro PCLinuxOS, which is rpm based but uses APT for package management.
7 • internet filter (by Dave on 2025-12-15 07:52:43 GMT from Australia)
I was asked to setup something for a friend, basically block everything except certain sites. I found tinyproxy worked really well and was easy to configure and maintain.
8 • BSD's (by eee on 2025-12-15 08:04:41 GMT from Poland)
Some time ago I've found a good (and funny) comparision between some of BSD's operation systems. At all, it confirms the conclusions of Jesse's review. See: https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-main-differences-between-openbsd-freebsd-netbsd-and-dragonflybsd.html.
9 • Firefox filtering (by Dave on 2025-12-15 09:03:32 GMT from Australia)
I read the main question article. You can use a Firefox policy files to control access to web sites. If done corretly it won't allow the user to install extensions, change settings etc and can be quite effective
10 • Internet filtering, a visit another two kids a Live USB Stick, computer fixed. (by Hank on 2025-12-15 10:06:59 GMT from Germany)
A visit to friends
another two kids a Live USB Stick, computer fixed.
And a very angry daughter,
dad do you think I am an idiot.
Me no I just gave you a little problem,
you solved it perfectly in a small team. Congratulations to all 3 of you.
Teach kids, if you can that is, they need to cope with the future we have
mainly fscked up already.
11 • OpenBSD (by Mike on 2025-12-15 10:12:06 GMT from The Netherlands)
When I look at BSD it reminds me of how Linux was 25-30 years ago. Great for servers, but a bit of a fight to be able to use it as a desktop.
I respect people who use it on their desktop, but with Linux being a solid far more advanced for desktop use, I guess I would choose Linux instead.
As there was no alternative 30 years ago, we had lots of fun helping people getting started with Linux on IRC. I guess that is part of the charm running BSD nowadays.
12 • Wikipedia Only via Kiwix (by MattE on 2025-12-15 12:15:17 GMT from United States)
* A Kiwix Wikipedia download and no internet at all could be an alternative. Use an old laptop or PC, remove the WiFi card, disconnect the Ethernet LAN connection internally, hide the USB Ethernet adapter only using it for updates. Probably should have at least a 500GB SSD.
* It's good to reduce the risks for you children, but In the end, if your kids are smart and resistant, they'll find a way. Some level of supervision will always be required.
13 • @11 OpenBSD and 30 years ago (by picamanic on 2025-12-15 12:25:05 GMT from United Kingdom)
@11 OpenBSD and 30 years ago .. I was using Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations that were running closed source versions of UNIX versions 4 and 5 [I think]. I only moved to Linux on PCs at the turn of the century. I never tried to use the various BSDs.
14 • OpenBSD (by dragonmouth on 2025-12-15 12:59:59 GMT from United States)
From Jesse's review and from the comments, it appears that OpenBSD is for users with at least intermediate knowledge of BSD(s).
What would be the easiest BSD for a noob to start with?
15 • "sudo nano" (by Anton on 2025-12-15 13:37:41 GMT from Czechia)
Please, don't use `sudo nano [...]`; use the proper `sudoedit [...]`. (It respects the `EDITOR` variable, so use that if needed.) :)
16 • @14 easiest BSD (by Keith S on 2025-12-15 13:46:34 GMT from United States)
I haven't tried it recently but probably GhostBSD is easiest. It is a descendant of the discontinued TrueOS, which came from PC-BSD (which I used for a year or so), which was based on FreeBSD.
17 • OpenBSD usability (by Keith S on 2025-12-15 14:38:51 GMT from United States)
One other suggestion that I would make if you decide to try OpenBSD: if you have the disk space, double or triple the sizes of /usr/src and /usr/obj that the default partition layout offers, if you plan to build from source. OpenBSD has plenty of packages to get most things done, but sometimes I wanted to use something that wasn't available.
It is also a great OS if you just want to learn how to build from source without the pain of trying to get Gentoo or LFS working. Install -current and then do updates from source, which is one of the default options.
Also, it is true that OpenBSD doesn't handle Linux file formats, but it does work with Windows file formats using FAT32 / vfat. NTFS is read-only I think. When I dual-booted with Windows, I always had a shared data partition formatted to FAT32 that worked with both. Another option used to be to use NFS to share files with a Linux system, but it involved some fiddling to get it to work well. I don't know if that is still available. There was also an ext2fs option for ext2 / ext3 formats, but journaling didn't work right as I recall.
Jesse is right, the OpenBSD team doesn't really care about Linux. The antipathy between the two has a long history.
18 • Germany is saving money using Linux (by Bidibuz on 2025-12-15 14:48:24 GMT from France)
Good thing Microsoft is too busy with AI or it would have sent its advocate army to reverse the situation.
So thanks AI for helping Microsoft being a little less itself.
19 • Internet filtering (by #6 on 2025-12-15 15:11:33 GMT from Canada)
There's a very simple solution to this problem in Canada:
CIRA's "Canadian Shield" is a free service and it offers a simple way to handle routers, smartphones and tablets, browsers (via extensions), and home networks, but it's specific to Canadians.
Canadian citizens and residents can have free raw DNS connections, protected connections, and family-level filtering. (Protected connections take out the usual griefers; it's appropriate for adults.)
20 • Penguins in Schleswig-Holstein and your phone (by Jupiter on 2025-12-15 15:39:45 GMT from United States)
Well, I'm quite pleased to see some governments trying out some FOSS and moving away from the Big Tech Giants.
@18 the AI isn't great, but at least it distracted MS for a while.
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Well, looks like we're getting another Linux Phone, and it does look like this could go somewhere. I'm in the States though myself, so I won't be buying it any time soon, since what I currently use works alright as is.
Would be cool to see Europe ditch Big Tech in Favor of Linux and FOSS, but we shall see with due time.
21 • c at end of device names (by Mark E on 2025-12-15 16:04:55 GMT from United Kingdom)
This is similar to SunOS/Solaris where the 3rd partition (known as slice 2) mapped to the entire disk. So if you wanted to copy an entire disk using dd, for example, your boot disk, you would use if=/dev/disk/c0t0d0s2
I'm assuming OpenBSD is similar in that way, although I don't know if it was originally a Unix thing or a Sun thing.
22 • Linux and AI (by The Catboy on 2025-12-15 16:51:32 GMT from United States)
The idea of Linux distros adding more AI support and features is just gross. I use Linux because I don’t want my data being stolen, adding anything AI goes against that.
23 • @14 which BSD is easiest (by DaveT on 2025-12-15 17:05:55 GMT from United Kingdom)
They all have their funny little ways. GhostBSD might be the easiest one to start with.
For FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD expect half a dozen re-installs and a lot of reading and searching before you get the hang of it!
OpenBSD with xfce4 has been my daily driver for years.
Devuan for those things OpenBSD can't do.
NetBSD with pkgsrc on old computers using ctwm instead of a modern desktop setup just because I can.
24 • Fedora & AI (by Syd on 2025-12-15 17:16:24 GMT from United Kingdom)
Red Hat uses Fedora to experiment with new technologies. AI (which I have little faith in) couldn't be left out. A failed experiment doesn't preclude (or include) future advances.
25 • On BSDs. (by Tuxedoar on 2025-12-15 17:39:54 GMT from Argentina)
I've never tried or used any of the BSDs flavours. It's a pending task on my projects list. Specifically, I'd like to give NetBSD a try on an old Netbook with a 32-bit Atom processor (2GB of RAM). Not for a desktop usage, but for server related stuff. I'm curious what I'll be able to achieve with it.
Have a nice week.
Cheers.
26 • BSD vs Linux (by Jyrki on 2025-12-15 19:29:45 GMT from Czechia)
Linux is like a swiss knife to me. It can handle almost anything. It is a great help when there is no other option but it's not the tool you want to use.
When it comes to BSDs, I like OpenBSD and FreeBSD. OpenBSD is great because it doesn't strive to be yet another Linux distro, they don't care about Linux and they things their way and it works. I use OpenBSD even on a notebook and with Lenovo machine it works just fine.
FreeBSD is more like a Linux competitor from BSD world and I do appreciate they in contrary to Linux, they further develop what they have, add options and functions rather then what we see with Linux - develop, use, throw away and write something completely different from scratch. And that's why BSD appeals to me much more than Linux.
27 • File systems in BSD (by Jyrki on 2025-12-15 19:41:07 GMT from Czechia)
file sharing has been mentioned several times as an issue with BSD.
I use UFS2 for shared drives. It works perfectly with Open/Net/FreeBSD and I use it in RO mode in Linux too. The only BSD that does not support it is DragonFly.
NFS is always universal solution. NTFS in RO mode works fine. Linux EXT2 works but not with the largest block sizes. In general I had issue to use EXT2 with BSD for drives above 2TB.
28 • OpenBSD (by John on 2025-12-16 01:39:08 GMT from Canada)
When I first started using OpenBSD, I did a lot of reading of the docs, sometimes a couple of times :)
I ended up with a very usable workstation, not an extreme speed-demon, but it is fast enough for what I do. I really notice little difference in speed.
For bluetooth audio, there are dongles you can use and the dongle I have even works better on Linux then the internal BT. I do no know what you have for wireless mouse/keyboard, but my non-bluetooth wireless mouse woks fine.
For people looking at OpenBSD, I usually double the size of /usr and /usr/local then what is recommended. Those are the file systems people tend to fill up. I also increase the size of / "just in case". Of course this assumes you have a decent size disk.
If you need to combine file systems at install, you need to ensure / and /usr/local is on its own file system, but doing that is really not recommended.
29 • Virtual machines on OpenBSD (by Chris on 2025-12-16 20:54:21 GMT from Sweden)
QEMU is available in the OpenBSD port tree. An alternative approach may be to run OpenBSD and other operating systems as guests in Xen - however, OpenBSD cannot be Dom0.
30 • QEMU and OpenBSD (by We all float down on 2025-12-16 22:54:08 GMT from The Netherlands)
@29 Funny you mention QEMU, I used it to give FuguIta a fair chance, but after a very long wait ended up in the kernel debugger, end of story, however the OpenBSD miniroot image did boot. Then I checked the current size of base and should have saved myself the trouble. NetBSD is still smaller but nothing beats a busybox Linux such as TinyCore (at least for repurposed thin clients with small disks), in fact I would rather install OpenWRT, optionally with containers, than try to strip the bloated mess off OpenBSD.
31 • desktop system on BSD (by tomas on 2025-12-17 00:56:20 GMT from Czechia)
From the last 2 reviews on BSD I get the information that IMHO even a professional cannot install and configure BSD for desktop use without problem.
Here I see a gap in the information to be found on DistroWatch.
Trying to find a BSD distribution that comes with desktop out of the box I could see only GhostBSD and NomadBSD.
In search more of them are displayed, but in detail it is clear that the desktop must be installed from the command line.
In fact this applies to Linux too.
There are possibly 4 different ways to install the desired desktop:
- choosing the appropriate installation medium from the developers website
- choosing the desktop during installation from universal media
- installing (manually) from the distribution repository
- manual installation from elsewhere (I have seen a blog about installing KDE on Mint).
It seems that DistroWatch takes the third possibility when displaying the info about a distribution.
I would prefer the first two.
32 • Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees First CVE Vulnerability (by jc on 2025-12-18 01:28:17 GMT from The Netherlands)
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/2034233/linux-kernel-rust-code-sees-its-first-cve-vulnerability
33 • @21 c at end of device names (by Keith S on 2025-12-18 14:57:45 GMT from United States)
I remained curious, because I don't like it when I forget things. OpenBSD's excellent man pages came through once again. man
"disklabel supports 15 configurable partitions, ‘a’ through ‘p’, excluding ‘c’. The ‘c’ partition describes the entire physical disk, is automatically created by the kernel, and cannot be modified or deleted by disklabel. By convention, the ‘a’ partition of the boot disk is the root partition, and the ‘b’ partition of the boot disk is the swap partition, but all other letters can be used in any order for any other partitions as desired.
34 • OpenBSD (by Keith S on 2025-12-18 15:02:13 GMT from United States)
I want this discussion has inspired me to stop being lazy and get OpenBSD working again on my laptop. I'm sure it has only gotten better in the seven or eight years since I used it regularly. The only thing that I might need Linux for really is the little bit of video editing that I do. As noted above by Jyrki, the BSDs do a much better job of refining and building on what they already have, rather than throwing away systems that have existed sometimes for decades and starting from scratch just because.
35 • Oops (by Keith S on 2025-12-18 15:09:09 GMT from United States)
I meant to say "All of this discussion..." and not "I want this discussion ..."
36 • Jolla phone (by Kazlu on 2025-12-19 15:34:54 GMT from France)
I read the announcement of the Jolla phone with some interest, having used myself SailfishOS on a Sony phone with mixed feelings but still considering it in the near future. I read the new phone has "User configurable physical Privacy Switch". Wait a minute... If it's user configurable, it means the function is programmable in the *software*, therefore it can be bypassed by a potential malware. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a physical switch?
37 • Openbsd (by rhtoras on 2025-12-19 16:47:38 GMT from Greece)
I like and use openbsd. The installer is similar to the one of alpine linux. It's nice and has great software for what i do. United BSD, tum fatig and unix cafe are great places to learn the basics. If i 'd like to see a setup i would love to see more places and blogs. Are there any ? What do yo suggest ?
38 • A physical switch (by Joel on 2025-12-19 18:59:11 GMT from Poland)
@36:
Surely it defeat that purpose. I would consider UBPorts as a more free non-Android mobile OS.
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| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
| • Issue 1106 (2025-01-27): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6, Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5, detecting whether a process is inside a virtual machine, drawing graphics to NetBSD terminal, Nix ported to FreeBSD, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference |
| • Issue 1105 (2025-01-20): CentOS 10 Stream, old Flatpak bundles in software centres, Haiku ports Iceweasel, Oracle shows off debugging tools, rsync vulnerability patched |
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RebeccaBlackOS is a Debian-based live distribution which can be used to run Wayland desktop sessions. RebeccaBlackOS can run a number of popular open source desktop environments on top of a Wayland graphical session. The distribution was (and remains) one of the only Linux distributions to run a Wayland session from live media. The distribution is available in 32-bit and 64-bit builds for the x86 architecture.
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