Openbsd

Looking at NetBSD from an OpenBSD user perspective

       765 words, 4 minutes

I use to use NetBSD quite a lot. From 2.0 to 6.99. But for some reasons, I stopped using it about 2012, in favor of OpenBSD. Reading on the new 8 release, I wanted to see if all the things I didn’t like on NetBSD were gone. Here is a personal Pros / Cons list. No Troll, hopefully. Just trying to be objective.

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An OpenBSD desktop using WindowMaker

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Since I started using *N?X, I’ve regularly used WindowMaker. I’ve always liked the look and feel, the dock system and the dockapps. It may look a bit oldish nowadays. And that’s enough to try to change this. So here it is, a 2019 flavored WindowMaker Desktop, running on OpenBSD 6.4/amd64.

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Customizing OpenBSD xenodm

       789 words, 4 minutes

OpenBSD ships with a graphical login screen named xenodm. The default configuration looks a bit old (to my taste). So I decided to look at how to have it feel a bit more modern. Somebody said “ricing” ? …

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Customized resolution for OpenBSD in VirtualBox

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When you run an OpenBSD desktop inside VirtualBox, you don’t get the easy “change resolution” feature. Mostly because there is no “VirtualBox Tools” for OpenBSD, AFAIK. But there is a way to get a customized video resolution.

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OpenBSD with Mint sauce

       231 words, 2 minutes

If you like the Linux Mint look but you run OpenBSD, you’re only a few ops to getting a pretty green desktop.

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