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OS: Freebsd 10.1 p10
WM: Cwm
Proggys: osd_cat patched with xft, xterm, bsdinfo, vim, weatherman, top, tinyradio.
Colors: mostly zenburn.
Font: DejaVu Sans Mono
Wallpaper: underwater_tiles.jpg

^ Looks fantastic, chef!

Thanks Doc

Oops didnt mean to post that here could someone please move this thread to the /usr/local/bin/scrot..
or just delete and I will recreate... thanks

^ I move it for you :)

Edit: done!

Fucking hell yeah, Chef that is a nice scrot :D
Bones will be pleased to see some BSD around here which is no normal thing ;)

^^ Danke schön

^ Thanks alot of bbq sauce either used, converted or influenced :)

That right there is a thing of beauty, very nice. BSDs and cwm go great together. :)

^ I just knew that you would be happy Bones ;) And.......again Chef bloody nice scrot of a Berkeley Software Distribution :D
Hmm, I might go for it, for some more *nix experience very soon actually!

^ if you do and you want to coexist with linus this is the way - http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1060

^ Thanks Chef, already looking at it :)
Cheers
Simon

and more of my BSD or die. Not alot of sauce to see since I would need to build some things from source and patch xft, re-write some scripts. I started working on some generic bsdinfo stuff but each system is different in alot of ways. A plus is all the wifi with wpa_cli working on the laptops.

OpenBSD cross posted from http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1365

NetBSD Next up Dragonfly

^ Cool Chef :)
Have you tried Dragonfly before btw? Wondered if Hammer is the only real difference from it and the other BSDs, and that it is more cluster focused?

Your name is now the BSDmangler ;)

Cheers
Simon

PS In a superficial way, I have always liked their logo :)

great BSD porn chef

^^

Never tried Dragonfly before. So far the real difference is the installers, bootloaders, kernels, userlands, package managers both source and binary. How the devices like drives/slices and ethernet/wifi are labeled. Really the only thing I am seeing in common was great documentation, less so on NetBSD it kicked my butt a bit but I liked it.

^ thanks dkeg

^ I have heard that before with NetBSD, it can really be a pain.
Which installer do you prefer so far ?

The easiest by far is OpenBSD using default selections. Can be up and running in 'X' as quick as any binary linux. The thing is the default creates lots of slices for there way of thinking. And I get why they do that for security, backing up and restoring etc. I just haven't tried to make it live with linux on same drive yet and I am sure if you asked someone they would say why would you want to ;)

NetBSD will let you create one big root and a swap ala linux. You can also make it play nicely with linux and grub like FreeBSD and bacon's write up linked above. The installer is the coolest install script this side of linuxbbq. I used the boot only and pulled from ftp the sets. Part of my trouble with the install was my understanding and shouldn't be a knock against it. I was setting up a quad boot BSD system and struggled with there naming convention and boot loader compared to the others. I think it is one of the BEARDiest BSD's out there... so far.

all just IMHO and reserve the right to change my mind at any time :)

EDIT: I'm sure you can do whatever you want will all of them. Its just a matter of time and understanding of the system. Most of my experience has been in the default installs and following the handbooks.

^ I terribly failed trying to multi-boot openbsd, i manually created a single slice in a extended partition with fdisk ( which is too bare bone and unnecessarily complicated ) but then there was some issue with sector allocation or something ) so I went the disklabel route and let auto-layout nuke everything which was fun and I ended up with a brand new partition table and a netinstall of jessie :)

If you get to multi-boot Openbsd with linux, please share how you did it :)

One last one before moving on.

NetBSD Current on the Pi

^^ Chef, I love your detailed honesty. Maybe I should take Net for a spin. I have heard, and from Jones as well (I recall a while back) That in general BSDs like to take over the pc ;) Dominant buggers :D
But if you say that Net plays better with Linux than OpenBSD, I will try it again. I will never give up mate :)
But please when the hour of the Dragonfly arrives, feedback is very much appreciated, since you are way ahead of me in/on this BSD tour :D

cheers
simon

PS: Good to hear from you as well stark, in this category :)

Ok this is the last of the BIG 4 and my personal eval of installing, building with both binary and source, system upgrades and pkg upgrades binary and source.

DragonFly BSD 4.0.5
text colors from wux - http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f ... =60#p16191

I'm not going to say much about DragonFly but to say its very user friendly, installing and building where about as easy as it gets. I used UFS instead of the hammer FS since I had no need and I was just comparing. Based on FreeBSD it made pids info script (WIP) I was reworking for FreeBSD it played along nicely.

Also want to mention the drive/disk/slice issues I mentioned above have been resolved and it had to do with FreeBSD using GPT as it default. At some point I went back to MBR and it left me a bit fubar. Later on with NetBSD I started using Disklablel instead. Anyway the answers in case anyone else has issue or wants to know the whole story, start your investigation here. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html. I ended up using a http://redobackup.org/ as I had it sitting on a CD ready to go. I have also used it to restore a locked drive. YMMV