Since we’re on the topic of BSD, what about yet another helpful guide on what to do after first installing OpenBSD? We’ve covered a few of these already, but more can never hurt, and OpenBSD is a great platform that would suit a lot more of us than you might think.
Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?
↫ Peter N. M. Hansteen
This guide by Hansteen focuses primarily on the various basic system management tools you’ll be needing to keep OpenBSD up to date after initial installation, and how to install anything else you might need.
From Peter’s article:
I thought it still defaulted to FVWM? I know cwm is there and ready to use but the last time I installed 7.5 it was FVWM that launched with xenodm.
> I thought it still defaulted to FVWM?
Nope.
OpenBSD is the best OS I’ve used. Unfortunately best does not mean most practical or most often used, nvidia drivers etc and other applications which I use that are restricted to other OSes.
One no brainer fix they still need to do is maintaining “sets” selection during upgrades. Until they can do that there is no point in selecting a subset of the “sets” during installation because the default selections get installed on a point release upgrade. Such a dumb problem.
They fixed ‘pkg_add -u’ 12-18 months ago, that used to be _very_ slow, it was a really good improvement.