OpenBSD's overall stance on virtualization makes it a poor choice for a
desktop OS unfortunately. I partially understand the reasoning, however,
given the limits of software support on the *BSDs in general, and OpenBSD
in particular, the lack of virtualization options effectively makes it
unusable for a substantial number of users.

The situation on FreeBSD seems a little better though, and I've seriously
considered making that switch.






On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:55:48 +0000
> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
>
> > Slackware is hard work when you have been used to the ease of debian
> > for so many years...
> > Eventually it all worked OK until one particular bit of music
> > composition software I like to use could only be found in
> > Slackbuilds, and it would not install even after I did some editing
> > of the scripts. I gave up and installed devuan again.
>
> Devuan is an excellent distro and I applaud you for installing it.
>
> If you ever find that one app that you can't install on Devuan, just
> run a VM or container that *does* do that app right, and run that one
> app there.
>
> The entire reason why I didn't migrate to OpenBSD and happily stay
> there in September 2014 is because OpenBSD has no functional and
> working Qemu, and shows little motivation to change that. So I'd have
> to permanently live without those couple programs I needed. Normal
> Linuxes enable you to run other distros in VMs or containers, so choose
> the best one, even if it won't do your favorite program.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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