This is an attempt at building an OpenBSD desktop than could be used by newcomers or by people that don’t care about tinkering with computers and just want a working daily driver for general tasks.
Somebody will obviously need to know a bit of UNIX but we’ll try to limit it to the minimum.
↫ Joel Carnat
An excellent, to-the-point, no-nonsense guide about turning a default OpenBSD installation into a desktop operating system running Xfce. You definitely don’t need intimate, arcane knowledge of OpenBSD to follow along with this one.
Joel’s blog should be on any OpenBSD user’s list of essential bookmarks, I know it has been and continues to be helpful to me when working with OpenBSD. I have several of his blog posts saved under my /FOSS/OpenBSD bookmarks folder.
What is the advantage vs GhostBSD?
GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD, so it’s really a fundamental difference at the core. While both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are BSD, they have different goals and philosophies. I personally prefer OpenBSD for the simplicity, sane defaults, and community, but I have absolutely nothing against FreeBSD and its derivatives.
By the way, just as GhostBSD is a great live image based on FreeBSD, there is a similar live image based on OpenBSD called FuguIta. It doesn’t boot to a GUI like GhostBSD, but otherwise it’s a great way to check out OpenBSD on your hardware without installing it, especially if you can boot from a fast USB SSD.
https://fuguita.org/