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The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro

by senzilla on 2/12/22, 7:27 AM with 65 comments

  • by genewitch on 2/12/22, 9:23 AM

    When the raspberry pi first launched I managed to get Gentoo on it with a USB hard disk, and I decided that was the last time I was going to go that crazy ever again.

    I also had some spare servers set up as distcc-pump servers, so very little got compiled on the pi.

    If this sort of thing pleases you, more power to you. We need those people and these write-ups to keep everything moving forward, or it's apple all the way down...

  • by aspyct on 2/12/22, 10:30 AM

    I'm amazed at how the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots.

    I've been using various unices for about 20 years now, ranging from Slackware Linux to OpenSolaris to FreeBSD to Kubuntu. I gave openbsd a try a few years back, and found it utterly complicated to setup and use.

    And when you ask for help, you're treated like an idiot and the only reply you get is basically "rtfm". No joke, one of the guys said "Grey Unix beards are formed in suffering".

    Granted, a lot of stuff is in the documentation. But also a lot of stuff isn't. Your edge case from laptop X isn't documented, and you're still considered an idiot if you can't solve it.

    Even the title of this article reflects that mindset.

  • by nix23 on 2/12/22, 9:36 AM

    My biggest problem with OpenBSD is the partitioning, do i want security? Then i need partitions with w^x but how big should they be without wasting to much space. I think OpenBSD would greatly benefit from stuff like zfs-filesystems or btrfs sub-partitions...and NO i don't say OpenBSD needs ZFS, just a more flexible partition mechanism, maybe overlay with quota or something?

  • by j4yav on 2/12/22, 8:34 AM

    Are the idiot’s guides going through a euphemism treadmill? What’s next? The irredeemable moron’s guide to Nix?

  • by briandear on 2/12/22, 5:08 PM

    “Pinebook Pro?”

    Seems like an attempt to make it should Apple-like in naming. Why the need to try and piggyback off Apple? I take it less seriously because of the obvious attempt at invoking Apple. A gimmick name.