> > OpenBSD's overall stance on virtualization makes it a poor choice for a > desktop OS unfortunately. I partially understand the reasoning, however, > given the limits of software support on the *BSDs in general, and OpenBSD > in particular, the lack of virtualization options effectively makes it > unusable for a substantial number of users. >
Looks like this might change in the next release. Link: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20151122214050 > The situation on FreeBSD seems a little better though, and I've seriously > considered making that switch. > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:55:48 +0000 >> Dave Turner <dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> wrote: >> >> > Slackware is hard work when you have been used to the ease of debian >> > for so many years... >> > Eventually it all worked OK until one particular bit of music >> > composition software I like to use could only be found in >> > Slackbuilds, and it would not install even after I did some editing >> > of the scripts. I gave up and installed devuan again. >> >> Devuan is an excellent distro and I applaud you for installing it. >> >> If you ever find that one app that you can't install on Devuan, just >> run a VM or container that *does* do that app right, and run that one >> app there. >> >> The entire reason why I didn't migrate to OpenBSD and happily stay >> there in September 2014 is because OpenBSD has no functional and >> working Qemu, and shows little motivation to change that. So I'd have >> to permanently live without those couple programs I needed. Normal >> Linuxes enable you to run other distros in VMs or containers, so choose >> the best one, even if it won't do your favorite program. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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