Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) Regards On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:31:43 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Less than 1.5 GB :) root and home fs are inside wdO which is : wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: FUJITSU MPB3064ATU E Cheers Hi Johan, interesting. How much disk space would I need to get the same or similiar setup? Regards Andrew On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:42:06 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made few screenshots on my main workstation ... Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible . -- Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) Regards it's been done check the archives.
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
On 4/17/06, Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, wonderful! Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) A step-through guide for what? If you're familiar enough with OpenBSD to have installed it as a server and your hardware is supported then it's trivial. You install OpenBSD including X, and use pkg_add to your heart's content. Java and Flash are a little tricky but they're mentioned in the FAQ, and I've never bothered with KDE or gnome. Greg Greg
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Why do people have the idea that a Unix desktop system is such a wildly different beast than a server? Is it because vendors like Red Hat and SuSE put out different distributions for each role? DS
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from the sources but even if that s not that complicated it could be useful to read in what order or what way libs or dependancies must be installed, just to avoid time loss at least ... Cheers
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
From: Johan SANCHEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from the sources but even if that s not that complicated it could be useful to read in what order or what way libs or dependancies must be installed, just to avoid time loss at least ... I'm not sure I understand. You automatically resolve dependencies installing either through the ports tree or if $PKG_PATH is set correctly for packages. And for a decent source-based installation, you should know up front which dependencies are required so that you can install them (ports or packages most often available). Plus if avoiding time loss is the question, packages seems like an obvious answer (where a package is available of course.) DS
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0200, Johan SANCHEZ wrote: Certainly want to try this when I can find time. Forgive me for being lazy, but probably could encourage more to try by providing some kind of step-through or guide:) What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from the sources but even if that s not that complicated it could be useful to read in what order or what way libs or dependancies must be installed, just to avoid time loss at least ... Cheers Ports will automatically do the right thing. Installing from source is understandably not supported, but reading ports it shouldn't be too hard either. More to the point, select some packages you want to have installed, and use either pkg_add or make install with the proper arguments/in the proper directories. Both systems will automatically pull in all dependencies. Joachim
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:05:08 -0700 Spruell, Darren-Perot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Johan SANCHEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What kind of a guide is needed? Install the x* file sets, and pkg_add your applications. Hi, Personnally i prefer use the ports tree or compile from the sources but even if that s not that complicated it could be useful to read in what order or what way libs or dependancies must be installed, just to avoid time loss at least ... I'm not sure I understand. You automatically resolve dependencies installing either through the ports tree or if $PKG_PATH is set correctly for packages. And for a decent source-based installation, you should know up front which dependencies are required so that you can install them (ports or packages most often available). Plus if avoiding time loss is the question, packages seems like an obvious answer (where a package is available of course.) I was not talking for myself :)
OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made few screenshots on my main workstation ... Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible .
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hi Johan, interesting. How much disk space would I need to get the same or similiar setup? Regards Andrew On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:42:06 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made few screenshots on my main workstation ... Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible . -- Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail...
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hi Less than 1.5 GB :) root and home fs are inside wdO which is : wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: FUJITSU MPB3064ATU E Cheers Hi Johan, interesting. How much disk space would I need to get the same or similiar setup? Regards Andrew On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:42:06 +0200, Johan SANCHEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list, Quite useless thread indeed ... :-/ Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made few screenshots on my main workstation ... Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible . -- Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail...
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
Hello Johan, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 5:42:06 AM, you wrote: JS Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. JS But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made JS few screenshots on my main workstation ... JS Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop JS Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible . I think I am going to do this too... I have three OBSD servers, and would like to run it on the desktop as well, primarily for Internet interface... web, mail, etc. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
A couple of weeks ago the computer my wife uses became so bad in terms of performance and maintenance that I decided to replace WinXP with OpenBSD. I'd wanted to do it a long time ago, but I was worried that the transition would be too much. My wife is not a technical person, and has only ever used Windows, but she was willing to try. I installed OpenBSD and KDE, with Firefox and Mozilla. She had already been using Firefox and Mozilla, so I copied her old configs data. She kept her mail, settings, bookmarks, and everything! I had to hand-edit a touch to make them look in the right place for the profiles, but that was easy enough. Since the switch she's had nothing but good to say about it. That's from a non-technical Windows user. Only problem so far: I had to set the user agent override in Firefox so that TurboTax online would think we were running Windoze. Of course their site worked fine with OpenBSD. They were just too braindead to consider anything except consumer versions of Windows or Mac. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:25:33 -0500 Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Johan, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 5:42:06 AM, you wrote: JS Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. JS But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made JS few screenshots on my main workstation ... JS Here it is http://www.chatou-informatic.com/opendesktop JS Thanks again OpenBSD for this to be possible . I think I am going to do this too... I have three OBSD servers, and would like to run it on the desktop as well, primarily for Internet interface... web, mail, etc. I already used OpenBSD as workstation past few years on mk68 and sparc/sparc64 but here is much hardware and apps to deal with. I only have pain to use my old mach64 all in wonder (PCI) as tv with gatos/gatitv/xatitv Cheers
