The world doesn’t live off jam and fancy perfumes, it lives off bread and meat and potatoes.

I decided to try another operating system while waiting eagerly for metad release. This video conviced me enough to give OpenBSD a try. Go here to know more about BSD and GNU/linux difference (if thats too long, just read the base system and philosophy parts).

So, OpenBSD on my old computer. I highly doubt that my optical drive there is still working. Too often I cant boot my PC from it. I tried OpenBSD live usb and failed. Luckily, once in a blue moon I can boot from my cd rom. After setting up partitions (which made my PC unusable because I bailed out the first time LOL), my cd rom cant read the distribution sets, so I chose to get them via ftp (thankfully, it points to the closest mirror). It took 1-2 hours so I ended up watching English Premier League and Natalie Portman on TV. OpenBSD installer alocates a single partition for OpenBSD, and you get to choose your own layout (swap, /usr, /var and so on) inside that partition.

After installation, I relied heavily on lynx and man pages. I intended to make this computer a workstation so I went installing desktop, firefox, pidgin and mplayer. First, I tried to install gnome and decided that it wasnt worth it (lots of packages). I settled for a simple window manager, openbox. And then I continued installing pidgin, firefox (both are old packages) and emacs (22, not 23). I havent tried the ports tree.

I decided that was enough OpenBSD for this weekend. I went to bed after breakfast and now Im having a headache.

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