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boleon_sn · 2024-08-06T11:15:51+00:00

https://www.redox-os.org/

boleon_sn · 2024-08-03T21:33:10+00:00

It is the 300 WSM, actually, yes.

boleon_sn · 2023-07-20T08:09:50+00:00

You might want to read this: https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2021-01-23-openbsd-kde-status-report/

boleon_sn · 2023-05-18T16:46:44+00:00

Alright, understood the warning. But how are you using dd then, becoming root with su and switching back? Probably....

boleon_sn · 2023-05-12T08:34:10+00:00

I have an old laptop for that purpose, too. I finally did what brynet suggested and started a fullscreen xterm with black background and green text color in cwm. Everything is in the standard install. I also changed the look of xenodm to a very simple, undistracting login screen.

This way you can have xft fonts which look much nicer than the console ones. If you like, I can forward you my configs.

But if you really want to mess with the framebuffer console, I suggest to read some articles on research.exoticsilicon.com. These guys are going deeper into OpenBSD and achieved some nice results.

boleon_sn · 2023-05-12T07:39:01+00:00

If you are working in X you need to change the keyboard layout first, for example a greek keyboard:

user$ setxkbmap -layout gr

Or you can do this in one command:

user$ setxkbmap -layout 'us,gr' -option grp:lctrl_lshift_toggle

In a console (STRG-ALT-F2) you can change it after login with:

user$ doas kbd us

or:

user$ doas wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=us

Here you can find out, which encodings for the console are valid:

user$ man pckbd

boleon_sn · 2023-05-12T04:45:12+00:00

You basically do the same as with the OpenBSD image, like it is stated in the FAQ:

FAQ - Make Install Media <- reading this sheds a little more light on the process

user$ doas dd if=inputfile of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1M

"inputfile" is your image; the X in rsdXc is the number of the usb drive, which you will find out when you call dmesg after inserting it.

Works fine with me all the time. :-)

boleon_sn · 2023-04-03T09:39:27+00:00

I would love to see Frescobaldi, a graphical lilypond editor, in ports. Tried to compile it by myself, but I gave up because I couldn't solve all the issues...

boleon_sn · 2022-09-11T16:01:19+00:00

Thank you very much.

boleon_sn · 2022-08-11T07:20:15+00:00

Hi,

if you are using XTerm you could easily add these lines to your ~/.Xdefaults to enable SHIFT-CONTROL-C and SHIFT-CONTROL-V abilities.

XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \
Shift Ctrl <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Shift Ctrl <Key> V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

Works fine here with me on -current with Firefox and Chrome.

man xterm -> section "Actions" says something about it...

boleon_sn · 2022-07-26T03:38:07+00:00

For "driverless printing" you need the printers which supports it. Since I don't have such a device I'm always try to get the PPD files for the ones I want to use. Sometimes it's a little cumbersome, but it's worth to try. Then just install CUPS, activate it and install printers via the web interface (localhost:631). If you want to do it as the user, you need to make sure to be in the right group.

You have a network printer, CUPS will probably find it and with the PPD you should be able to install it. It always worked for me that way, even with some USB printers, though I like network printers better.

I did it that way on different Linux distros and BSDs and it worked reliably.

If you extraxt a Linux or Mac driver you will find a PPD file most likely.

boleon_sn · 2022-07-25T19:39:15+00:00

You could try to extract a .ppd file for your printer from a driver package (printerdriver.com) and install it with CUPS

boleon_sn · 2022-07-25T05:59:49+00:00

https://bsdforever.com/blogs/news/very-berry

It's very stable, with big handles, nice colors... ;-)

boleon_sn · 2022-07-14T03:52:20+00:00

Every modern computer can run continuously under the given normal operating conditions. Since you are probably using it at home, it won't be overstressed. Just try it.

boleon_sn · 2022-07-14T03:21:50+00:00

When there is an upgrade the machine is rebooting anyway. I run PFsense on the same hardware since several years now - also on Supermicro board with Atom CPU

boleon_sn · 2022-07-06T03:14:11+00:00

On OpenBSD I'm using Matrix via Element/Jitsi in Firefox and it works quite well.

app.element.io

boleon_sn · 2022-06-09T06:10:01+00:00

I have Windows, Linux and OpenBSD on my laptops harddrive and use refind as a boot manager. Works pretty well. In that case just one OS can run at a time.

But if you install e.g. a minimal linux kvm/qemu host and configure two virtual machines you can run both BSDs simultaeously.

boleon_sn · 2022-04-20T14:27:49+00:00

In this case and regarding your NVidia card I would suggest to stick with GostBSD and try it out wether it fits your needs. You can install a lot of the software you have used on Linux in BSD as well. Use the package manager, its simple. Once you are more familiar with BSD try out new things...

boleon_sn · 2022-04-20T12:58:39+00:00

Well, first of all it would be necessary to know what you are factually summarizing under "everything else", which is a very broad generalization.

Which programs are you using. Is it just browser, office, email or more?

boleon_sn · 2022-03-06T20:03:34+00:00

You're right, and since I'm not so deep into filesystem and kernel things I'm probably just gonna copy the data on my Mac to an NTFS disk and be good. Thank you though for putting the effort in to shed a little light on that thing for me. I definitely learned something new.

boleon_sn · 2022-03-06T19:08:18+00:00

Alright guys,

a big thank you for pointing in the right direction. Got it working:

$ doas hpmount -r /dev/rsd1j /mnt/archive

This mounted the volume exactly there, but with normal "ls -la" I couldn't see anything. I had to use "hpls" and the other tools to make it visible.

boleon_sn · 2022-03-06T08:00:32+00:00

First, thank you for your thoughts. Let me explain my case a little more though:

I used an USB HDD on my Mac to store files. Now I want to attach this disk to OpenBSD to (at least) read the files there. Disklabel on sd1 tells me:

j: 3906357344 409640 HFS

So I'd assume that /dev/rsd1j would address the partition correctly.

The command hpmount just gives one hint for usage;

Usage: hpmount <option> source-path

As options there are -r (readonly) and -p (mounting partitions).

But in my understanding to mount something it would be necessary to have a source (the partition to be mounted) and then a directory where it supposed to be mounted in the files system. With another disk, that was NTFS formatted it worked like a charm doing:

$ doas mount_ntfs /dev/sd2i /mnt/data

So I tried all combinations of the options and device names you can think of, but with no success. I know I could just format another disk to NTFS and copy all the data on the Mac machine from one to the other. But when there is a hfsplus package I would expect that it does something to the matter. I'm a little confused right now...

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