All the BSDs have the packages I want and need, except working WiFi for
laptops!
My main desktop is an old Intel iMac. FreeBSD and PC-BSD would not install.
I could not get sound to work on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
So the old iMac runs debian jessie systemd and all.
My old laptop is now running devuan again, but this time as the Dom0 for
a xen hypervisor that will run NetBSD. My hope is that xen will pass on
the WiFi connection so that I have a NetBSD laptop with working WiFi.
We'll see!
So far I'm not sure the xen part is quite as it should be, I need to
spend some more time with the docs.
DaveT
On 11/01/16 00:15, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> 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@???
> <mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com>> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:55:48 +0000
> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???
> <mailto:dave_t_turner@barradas.free-online.co.uk>> 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
> January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
>
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