I have bought official CDs, they haven't been all that useful. Even the stickers faded when I put them on my car. I also supported by regular Paypal donation when I was working.
I like to build from distfiles. I'd like to see a set of DVDs that had distfiles for everything in a particular OpenBSD version, so all the dependencies were met. As far as I know the distfiles are generic enough so they work on multiple architectures. I'd make a list, drive about 2 miles, download everything on my list, come home and start building. When I found some dependency missing it went on the next day's list and I went on to something else. Eventually I got all that working and thought of more stuff I wanted. I have 515 ports by pkg_info, 552 on my laptop under 4.7, plus a lot of things that aren't in the ports collection just built from sources, like Fldigi, Gnuradio and snd. There isn't a hamradio category like in FreeBSD. Just about any unix program with a decent configure script and a lot without I've managed to get working. I've been using OpenBSD since 2.7 and rarely download binaries, except maybe Firefox. I like OpenBSD because it's small and simple (compared to FreeBSD or most Linuxes) and it doesn't insist on installing Gnome or KDE or something else to run your life. Fvwm is fine, typing startx is fine, and don't tell me I can't log in as root if I want to. It doesn't try to work like Windows (or Ubuntu). My first unix experiences were with Data General and DEC unix in the 90s and this is more like those than anything else I've tried. It's about all I've used since I retired a few years ago. But occasionally I find a few rough edges like pthreads. I'd heard there were pthreads issues and I knew they'd been replaced in newer versions, I'm just wondering if I've run into some of those problems. Most of the Osmocom group's programs like rtl_adsb, rtl_tcp don't work quite right under OpenBSD even though they compile fine (once you get rid of a -lrt here and there). There's probably a common cause and pthreads could be it. 6 different programs, 6 different problems. Very nice set of programs other than that. Command line software defined radio, originally for ARM machines like the Raspberry pi. About 1% of the size of Gnuradio, which is nice in it's own way but a little more bloatware than most people need or want. Alan On 1/20/13, Rogier Krieger <rkrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm on dialup, that's the only thing available in this area. >> Installing 5.0 took me about 3 months by the time I got everything the >> way I wanted it. > > Assuming the 3 months is spent on fiddling with a system rather than > downloading: It may pay off investing time in tools such as puppet or > cfengine (available through ports) that allow you to re-install more > easily, from a set of recipes/changes created by you. > > Additionally, there's features such as siteXX.tgz, as desribed in FAQ > 4.15 [1]. I've found that rather helpful in bootstrapping a system. > > Regards, > > Rogier > > > References > 1. OpenBSD FAQ - 4.15 - How can I install a number of similar systems? > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multiple > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
