Openbsd

Back to the sea ; the OpenBSD installation, episode II

       768 words, 4 minutes

OpenBSD is really easy to install. It’s not shinning, but it asks for a few questions and only takes a couple of minutes to get a working system.

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Back to the sea ; the OpenBSD services, episode I

       980 words, 5 minutes

For quite a long time now, I’ve been using the black console. My first contact with *N?X was around 1998, when my father brought me a Slackware CD from a hacking magazine that I don’t recall the name right now. At that time, I was using DOS and Windows 3. That was quite a change ; especially without any Internet access :) I quite often had to go to the bookshop to get UNIX books that were offering CD sets. That how I started fighting with Slackware and Debian distrib :) About 2000, I got a mid-term job at the Jussieu University of Paris. That’s also when I started getting told that Linux was for kiddies and that real admins use BSD. I know that’s not really a good reason to start using an Operating System, but that’s how I came to the *BSD systems :)

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OpenBSD on Dell Inspiron 10

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Specifications CPU: Intel Atom N450(1.66GHz, 667MHz FSB, 512K L2 Cache) Memory: 1GB SDRAM DDR2 @ 800 MHz Video: Intel® NM10 Express + Crystal HD Broadcom Media Accelerator Screen: 10.1" Widescreen Display (1366×768) System Operating System: OpenBSD 4.8 dmesg , acpidump , pcidump , sysctl Xorg , glxinfo

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