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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by bayindirh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:39AM (#18540619)
Thanks, will try FreeBSD first, then.
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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by sverige on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:04AM (#18540754)
OpenBSD's package manager is actually really easy to learn and use. Even I can do it.
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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by bayindirh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:23AM (#18541101)
I will try both, promise. :) I also find OpenBSD's ideology more resonating to me.
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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by ComputerGuru on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:39PM (#18546449)
OpenBSD's package manager comes unconfigured out of the box, though :(
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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017) by adamrt on Saturday December 01, 2018 @12:05PM (#18577623)
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure which version added it but /etc/installurl is configured to use cdn.openbsd.org during install. Prior to this, I believe /etc/installurl was populated with the mirror you chose during install. That had been around for at least a couple/few versions, IIRC.

Is there something else you are referring to? https://man.openbsd.org/installurl

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