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The perfect OS | by mutt | 2008-06-13 02:01:19 |
| Day 3 |
by mutt |
2008-06-15 23:54:16 |
I think I am going to stick with OpenBSD here. It fits the requirements I had been thinking of perfectly (a system where I have to do everything myself as far as possible).
One thing I am finding out about it is that you have to read a LOT, but once you have done your homework, it actually works very nicely, mainly owing to the excellent documentation available.
I installed OpenBSD 4.3 using the entire hard disk. Since I was not able to buy the official cd set (it's in the mail I think) I had to use the 4.3 iso which is quite limited (no packages/ports/source). After downloading the source, xenocara and ports and doing a kernel, userland and X build from them, I decided to follow current (its just a spare laptop, what can go wrong :-) ..
One interesting thing is that during the initial install the problem of shutdown hanging up was present, which was a bit of a disappointment. OpenBSD does, however, give me the option to disable ehci using a tool called UKC at boot time (I can probably do this at runtime too, but I didnt really have to dig deeper), this is something I am more comfortable with, as opposed to kicking ehci out of the kernel altogether.
But once I decided to follow current, I checked out the src, ports and xenocara sources from the Canada CVS server. A few hours of downloads and a full rebuild of the system later, I reboot the system, and it works perfectly. I leave ehci on and again reboot the machine, and still no hitches. It seems the developers were working on this issue and I picked a good time to use OpenBSD and switch to current :-D
Setting up pppoe took up some work. Again the man page helped a lot, and I finally have access to the internet. However I still haven't installed any packages, so its all lynx right now. I am using fvwm, and it is good enough for what I want it to do.
To Do :-
Enable linux binary compatibility.
Write shell scripts to automate the cvs updates and build process as well as the volume control (it seems I have to pass the volume to a binary called mixerctl to update the outputs.master values).
Enable NTFS from the kernel.
Install Firefox, mplayer, vlc, open office, opera and xpdf. |
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