NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist

Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by hiAndrewQuinn on Saturday March 09, 2024 @03:43AM (#39650386)

I was telling my wife about the big 3 BSDs yesterday. I said the NetBSD guys come off like the ones who are having the most fun, since it mostly seems to I, an outsider, like they just want to port NetBSD to as many platforms as possible.

OpenBSD is what I have landed on ultimately to start learning, but man, I can't even get it running in Virtualbox correctly. Gonna try QEMU today.

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by mmphosis on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:13AM (#39650490)

After many years, I've got OpenBSD working. I think that the trick was booting from Legacy BIOS. I do like the minimalism.

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by geraldhh on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:29AM (#39650534)

comment made my day, thx!

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by dbtc on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:31AM (#39650542)

Another option: check out vultr's $5/month openbsd VPS.

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by n0n on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:49AM (#39650603)

OpenBSD also runs perfectly fine on Hetzner Cloud VMs.

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by hiAndrewQuinn on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:10AM (#39650693)

Both great options, but I'm a local first kind of guy. If I can't get it running on a VM to experiment/create/destroy ad nauseum, I definitely am not gonna spin it up on a cloud versus a platform where I actually kind of know what I'm doing.

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Re:NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist by hnlmorg on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:45AM (#39650589)

I think Dragonfly doesn’t get as much love as it deserves either. Some of the concepts they build are pretty darn innovative.

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