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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 00:09 UTC, submitted by Mr. Ignition

OliveBSD is a live CD based on OpenBSD 3.8. It uses IceWM as its desktop environment (using ROX-Filer as file manager), and comes with the usual suspects when it comes to software. Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Gaim, Xmms; they require no introduction. There are enough screenshots in there, boys and girls, so enjoy.

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RE: Interesting

by Archite on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 09:09 UTC in reply to "Interesting"

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2006-01-14

Well, there are two ways of finding out the package that you want. First, you can check this page http://www.openbsd.org/3.8_packages/ Of course, the easier way is to download the package. Try this:

1) download the index of packages:
ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/index.txt
2) add the package patch to your environment
export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/
3) find the package you want and install it
pkg_add thepackagenamehere.tgz

Its a pretty simple process, really. This method does not require one to install the ports. Enjoy... of course, all this was in the man pages...

Damn typos, heh.

Edited 2006-02-22 09:11

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RE[2]: Interesting

by DevL on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 12:19 in reply to "RE: Interesting"

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2005-07-06

Okay, that seems to do the trick somewhat. I'd still like to see a system/process/base configuration that makes steps 1 and 2 redundant. Sort of adding a search feature to pkg_add or a pkg_search command.

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