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Lmao

Been slowly migrating my infrastructure to openbsd.

I haven't found a good way to handle base system updates on many physical servers.

I was thinking, pxe boot a random live image, have to pull a gold image and dd it to the drive, then ansible all the things.

M:Tier has some binary updates, if that's what you mean.

wow, that simplifies things.

Thanks user.

>Ask questions, get answers.
Anyone working with sysinstall/pc-sysintall?
I want to know how is programmed/scripted.

Any detail is welcome.

You mean bsdinstall? Sysinstall hasn't been in use since around FreeBSD 8, I believe.

What can you tell me about?

svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.3.0/usr.sbin/sysinstall/
Seems like it was programmed in C, which is weird because I don't think C programs are supposed to sit in /usr/sbin.

Though interestingly, bsdinstall only seems to be nothing but shell scripts, probably a wiser choice as that makes it easier for non-programmers to customize.

To the user that was asking about CDE and OpenBSD, I just noticed that CDE has been updated with OpenBSD 5.9 support. The installation guide includes steps to set up the CDE login manager dtlogin. It also covers has information for 6.0 but I don't run -current so I can't vouch for that. But it installed and ran on my 5.9 system without any hiccoughs.

Yeah, CDE was in the openbsd-wip ports tree for a while.

Maybe they'll make it not completely retarded to build some day.

Interesting, can you give me examples of customization? I would like to know how those scripts work.

I never had to do any, but they're on the cvs repo.
svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/10.3.0/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/
You can make it do anything, most likely. Only 3 parts of the installer are still written in C.

>GNU code is so bad that the recent binutils will refuse to compile on OpenBSD
holy shit, is it really surprising that they don't have a newer GCC/binutils after all?

Which BSD is most suitable for an ordinary desktop user? Are any of them?

OpenBSD is the most general purpose of all of them. It actually comes with X and a few WMs.

OpenBSD isn't suitable for watching video, it works fine for other purposes.

They fixed the scheduler in recent versions.

I tested it recently, still bad

Seems like a mixed bag then. I know watching actual videos is OK, it's just HTML5 streaming that suffers.

Which one will let me watch chink cartoons and Youtube? That's mostly what I do on my computer.

I watch video with mpv
vo=opengl-hq:tscale=oversample:interpolation:blend-subtitles
video-sync=display-resample
hwdec=no
fullscreen

For Gentoo this works perfectly, but for OpenBSD it's fucking slow.
FreeBSD is your best bet

Thanks. I remember hearing about PC-BSD years ago. Is it a meme, or would it be a good choice for a retard like me to get started with?

Not him, but PC-BSD was pretty clunky last time I used it. This was years ago, though.

Did you try out -current?

Yes, still a little glitches