Workstation

Video Edition notes on OpenBSD

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To create the “OpenBSD Workstation for the People PeerTube” video, I used KDEnlive on OpenBSD. But for reasons, I also had to use other tools.

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OpenBSD Workstation for the People

       2120 words, 10 minutes

This is an attempt at building an OpenBSD desktop than could be used by newcomers or by people that don’t care about tinkering with computers and just want a working daily driver for general tasks. Somebody will obviously need to know a bit of UNIX but we’ll try to limit it to the minimum.

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The remote OpenBSD 5.1 desktop

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I already post on using VNC to connect to a remote OpenBSD 4.9 server . I’m just gonna write a short refresh while configuring a brand new OpenBSD 5.1 i386 workstation on my ESXi 5.

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Using NetBSD as a Gnome workstation

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After a quick review of OpenBSD as a workstation, I wanted to see what NetBSD was like. I’ve used NetBSD quite a lot for both servers and workstations. But since I got my MacBook Pro, two years ago, I only use NetBSD as servers. So I’m gonna have a look at NetBSD 5.1 and see if I could give this to my daughter.

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Using OpenBSD as a workstation

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With the upcoming release of OpenBSD 4.9 and my previous testings with SOGo, I decided to give it a try as a workstation environment. I used OpenBSD for quite a while ; but this was decades before. If I’m right, this was about 2002. I was using stuff like WindowMaker, Sylpheed-Claws or Mutt (depending on the day mood), Mozilla or Lynx and XMMS. At this time, I was a SysAdmin so this was perfect are far from enough compared to Windows 2000. But nowadays, I’m a father storing loads photos and rendering personal week-end movies. I’m still a bit of a g33k ; after all, who would blog on using such OS… But let’s see if Open Source software can do the trick.

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