Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step?
In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD “from scratch”, as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system.
↫ Luis Falcon
A fun weekend project for next weekend.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260907#qa
Is is interesting that NetBSD is the only “major” system avoiding AI by policy. For users, one just needs to know that netBSD 11 graphics support exists until Intel SkyLake architecture, or AMD Radeon up to the Polaris architecture.
“until”, “up to” : sounds like obsolete to me.
Correct, but gaming on BSD is a fool’s errand, and the other use of a GPU is what we’re talking about avoiding, so… It is a little annoying needing to find specific obsolete hardware to use NetBSD, especially in examples like my getting a thin client from 2016 partly for use with NetBSD, assuming ten year old Intel graphics would be safe and being wrong, but it’s also not really a limiter for what you can do with it once you waste enough time to find something it can support
https://www.playonbsd.com
Probably only OpenBSD has sufficiently good GPU support to go into playing on BSD. But one would need some technical experience to make that happen on newer games.
Back to NetBSD, the big barrier is not there in the GPU, the big barrier is having just minimum graphic and wifi support for the people not demanding 3D.
Yea, that’s what I was trying to get at. NetBSD generally has 3D acceleration if it has any support for the video card at all, which is pretty much entirely obsolete cards, but that’s not really an issue because there’s not a ton of use for the GPU on not-Windows/Linux. You certainly can game on NetBSD, and probably OpenBSD, but I can’t really imagine why you’d want to
Perhaps to “not-Windows/Linux” ? That would be really really sad if 3D and other useful stuff can only be done on “Windows/Linux”.