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OpenBSD mentions (13)

• Can't import bookmarks in Firefox

  Thank you. I appreciate the answer. I was grokking the openbsd.org website for quite a while and didn't see anything like this. Source: 6 months ago

• fw_update: yes//SHA256.sig: No such file or directory

  I seem to be able to ping openbsd.org, as I see 64 bytes from... continuously. However, when I try to install software such as doas pkg_add vim I get Can't find vim. Source: 6 months ago

• Configuring a simple router with OpenBSD

  OpenBSD is a security-first Unix-like operating system belonging to the BSD family of operating systems. It is best known for the OpenSSH project founded in 1999 under the OpenBSD umbrella which has garnered widespread adoption beyond OpenBSD, including the infamous Linux operating system and even Microsoft Windows (since Windows 10). - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Why Artix?

  There are Gentoo variants with precompiled binary packages and backward compatibility. Redcore , Calculate, Pentoo, Funtoo and others. By OpenBSD I mean. Source: about 1 year ago

• Help, Installing OpenBSD for first time.

  (unable to get list from openbsd.org, but that is OK). Source: about 1 year ago

Illumos mentions (10)

• Can SGI’s Enthusiast Community Bring IRIX Back to Life?

  People are still actively working on Illumos. The last change was yesterday morning. * https://illumos.org People are still actively working on MirBSD. There's a CVS commit account that can be followed on the FediVerse. * http://www.mirbsd.org It's DragonFly BSD, not Dragon BSD, and the irony of that is that you missed FreeBSD, which is of course still going. * https://dragonflybsd.org * https://freebsd.org As... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Linux distributions' relative popularity over time (by Distrowatch hits)

  Its successor is still out there: Illumos. Though it seems to be mainly focused on backwards compatibility for existing custom applications as it still enforces things like an 8 character username limit. Source: about 1 year ago

• There are literally no reasons to choose an iPhone over an Android smartphone

  By contrast, if you replaced the usage share of Windows with that FreeBSD you and that of macOS with, say, illumos, I would care not one bit, because this wouldn't threaten my rights. FreeBSD respects user freedom, and so does illumos. Source: over 1 year ago

• OSes with native/root ZFS besides FreeBSD and Proxmox?

  All the Solaris family like illumos and openindiana. Source: over 1 year ago

• Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use

  Why? There is already an active open source fork of Solaris with better licensing terms than what Oracle offers - Illumos / OmniOS - https://illumos.org/ . - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago