I'm still on my project to multiboot 2 machines so I have Linux to try Android development but I've got one working. I just reinstalled Lilo from a Debian install CD, and I can do it again if I break it again. So XP, OpenBSD, Debian, all working on my 2008 Dell Latitude D530 laptop.
I had heard that Arch Linux was the most like OpenBSD but it's nowhere near as mature. I spent about a week on it, downloaded the live CD and installed from it, only to find the live CDs aren't up to date really and installing took another 24 hours of downloading current stuff. X isn't one nice tidy package there like it is with OpenBSD. I finally got it working but FVWM never looked quite right, some stuff missing, some other stuff I didn't bother to remove. Never got to 1920x1080 video like I have here. My motherboard video from Intel (different machine) is really made by Nvidia so I tried about 3 drivers including one from Nvidia that wouldn't compile. The same hardware has been working without a glitch under OpenBSD for years, I never knew there was anything odd about it, it just works. Installing OpenBSD has never been much harder than installing Windows. Arch was too much like Slackware from 1995, tracking down drivers, calculating modelines. Some strange rationale for using network interface names like enp0s29f7u2 too. Nothing good about the experience at all, I could have lived with it, 20 years ago I might have, but Debian and OpenBSD got me used to an easier life. And I've used FreeBSD and Red Hat before they got so commercial. Ubuntu, tried it, replaced it with Debian in a week. Linux is still sorta Mickey Mouse in my opinion, but sometimes it works. Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 63 65545199 65545137 31.3G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 65545200 198659789 133114590 63.5G a6 OpenBSD /dev/sda3 198659790 264188924 65529135 31.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 264188986 1953520064 1689331079 805.5G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 264188988 329734124 65545137 31.3G b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda6 329734188 395279324 65545137 31.3G b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7 395279388 403472474 8193087 3.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 403476480 1427476479 1024000000 488.3G a6 OpenBSD /dev/sda9 1427487768 1953520064 526032297 250.9G 83 Linux Alan Corey, ab1jx -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
