Creating an OpenBSD distro - BSD
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john65, I'm a pretty average user, too, but if you stick with it and follow some of the good tutorials on the web, you can set up a decent desktop BSD pretty easily. Here's a good tutorial for setting up OpenBSD 5.6 with Xfce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK60CXKIFXc You could also go very bare-bones and stay (mostly) with base, and configure cwm to look good and keep things nice and light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pyChAL4AE I have just recently (mostly) abandoned Linux in favor of OpenBSD, and I like it a lot: simple, solid, secure, stable. JWM is a decent WM, lighter than Xfce, heavier than cwm. A good rundown of WMs here: http://gilesorr.org/wm/table.html My favorites are cwm, spectrwm, and evilwm. |
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Thanks Bones, I'll definitely check those links out.
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Bones, those are both good links. I'll have to watch the CWM link again. I'm not familiar with that type of WM, but I like what I saw. Thanks :)
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OpenBSD 5.7 is out today.
Downloaded & installed to pendrives. Basic install (less comp & game)(added athn & urtwn wifi)(plus mpg123 & dillo) comes in at just 551mb, add to that firefox & it is 900mb. If you're not interested in X, then an install of the base (less comp & game)(added athn & urtwn wifi)(plus mpg123) is just 242mb. |
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Thought people might be interested in this - http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=9108
(A lightweight desktop environment using OpenBSD 5.7) |
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(13-05-2015, 05:23 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: Thought people might be interested in this - http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=9108 The concept is great but the end result looks like Openbox. I am sure lots of Gentoo users will like to have a try with that, because some of them can get overly crazy with dependinces and where they come from. Portage has made them go mad with power! |
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