After recently deciding to switch to OpenBSD full time for my main workstation, I needed to set up printing properly. Yes, I know…hard copy. But I am a bit old school, and besides, some things just need to be put on real paper to give to real people; in my case, my birthday was coming […]
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Since I wiped my main workstation/gaming PC the other day in a bout of frustration with, well, everything, I’ve been having fun OS-hopping. I have a fallback workstation that I can use for work purposes and to get me by while I’m noodling around in my main rig. My initial intention was to run OpenBSD
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Jumping off from my previous post about using OpenBSD as one’s daily workstation operating system, I’d like to explore another member of the BSD family, FreeBSD. Note that this will be less of a guide and more of a review. A little personal history is in order before I continue. I’ve never had a good
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OpenBSD is forever tied in first place with Void Linux as my favorite desktop OS. This is particularly funny because OpenBSD isn’t “just a desktop OS”; in its purest form, the base installation without any installed packages, it makes for an excellent Ethernet router, firewall, or web server. It even ships with its own fork
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