Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Overview of OpenBSD and a quick way to make a bootable CD/DVD of it

J & 39; was a user of BSD since the end of 1990. & 39; I have my own distribution FreeBSD - 1fcdbsd A diskette or CD and audio player for MP3 files (http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/), & 39; , and I have some experience in the BSD world, which feeds more on the side without a people & quot; & S 39; knowledge that he almost best.
BSD systems, the other policy in the areas of licensing and n & 39; important who can change his code and to say in their own. If you right-click on the file & quot; WINSOCK.DLL & quot; under Windows 98 (C: Windows WINSOCK.DLL), you will see & quot; BSD socket API for Windows & ; quot; in the properties & gt; version of windows, but the & quot; BSD & quot; not visible in the new versions of Windows systems " in version " in WINSOCK.DLL. But there is a lot of information about & 39; l & 39; Internet google, if you have two words: & quot; WINSOCK.DLL & quot; AND & quot ; bsd & quot;.
Albeit is the real Unix, BSD, I tried & 39; all Linux distributions, and what I really liked was & 39 d & 39; them was availability as a revolutionary Live CD & 39; n. You can use the ISO images as well as downward d & 39; a hat. With the BSD systems, c & 39; is a little different. One could hardly want a BSD live CD in 1990. Only a small number of & 39; between them apparently not now. Therefore & 39, I have the problem, even such a CD. & 39; I have with FreeBSD sorry. J & 39; done. Later, I put myself & 39; l & 39; focus on OpenBSD, because it has d & 39; a good reputation for its robust security. & 39; I also successful. But it would have the additional & 39; letter, and this item is not on the live CD OpenBSD, but a simple OpenBSD & 39; installation of a bootable CD / DVD, it is also difficult to get.
Usability
BSD systems work with all types of standard hardware, but some users who say that they are " & 39; less user-friendly. Conversely d & 39; others believe that the so-called & quot; friendly & quot; d & 39; refusal to allow the necessary configurations, as in other systems & 39;, where many services & 39; n automatically executed, it is a bit annoying when the administrators of their own concepts for security in L & 39; spirit, the disable basis.
Linux regularly will be further developed in terms of the accessibility to different types of hardware, such as printers, Jet d & 39; ink or USB WiFi solutions. OpenBSD, d & 39, a user of Linux from the perspective of the Pandora& 39;s box. Some can not be with me, but in the world in which all major systems & 39, operates bet on the easy use and d & 39; l & 39; interactive graphics, c & 39; is safe. This means that you forget, graphic installers - your first contact with the system is the text mode. But the text is the best I like.
OpenBSD together with Linux, too - he can run programs on a Linux-layer & 39; emulation; DOS programs in the QEMU emulator, as well as FreeBSD and other Unix, BSD and binary files. Although & 39; n OpenOffice.org has not yet been ported, you can easily open, or send your MS Word documents in Textmaker for Linux natively or OpenBSD AbiWord port and & 39; use many other Linux and BSD applications.
The system BSD family of systems and packages
The & 39; operation consists of the base system and additional packages. The core OpenBSD - kernel and base system (system / network of public services, one of the pages, etc.) is careful not to say paranoically reviewed to ensure the security holes.
The OS has a different philosophy & l amp; 39; packaging compared to Linux. It uses the ports and packages. The ports are the fingerprints of the applications on your hard disk. They contain the information, where they can be downloaded. You have just & quot; cd & quot; somewhere in the hierarchy of the directory / usr / share / ports directory, in which the applications are divided into categories, then & quot; & make install ; amp; quot; and maintain that the sources download, compile and install installed.
Prebuilt packages also can be a breeze. In contrast to the RPM files that you must install in order of dependency & 39; result, here you have anything on the policy tap.
Installation
The & 39 d & 39; OpenBSD team is the sale of ISO images. Unless you are prepared to a hard & 39; install, you have two choices: Either you buy their CDs & 39; n, or the building itself. If you choose this option, download the base system from these FTP mirror: www.openbsd.org / ftp.html. Place all the files in a directory (for example, / usr / opbsd) and the following command to the ISO image & 39; which:
mkisofs bc-cdrom40.fs boot.cat-Rvo / usr / My openbsd. Iso / usr / opbsd
The above command can be used both in the Linux and BSD in a system (FreeBSD, OpenBSD ...) and, if necessary, and in any system that mkisofs ported.
The following files contain the d & amp , 39, the base installation of OpenBSD - networking, Unix commands, X-Window, the man pages, not packages such as the Midnight Commander, Aspell, Gnome, KDE, etc.
When never in the future & 39;, you are ready to download newer version of OpenBSD & 39, and a bootable CD / DVD which, it is sufficient to change & quot; Cdrom40.fs & quot; in The top mkisofs (4.0 is the current version of OpenBSD) version, d & 39; agreement with eg " cdrom45.fs & quot; (a future OpenBSD), which is a image that the large bootable floppy emulated. A CD or DVD burners with this ISO file starts on n & 39; any PC (UDF not DVD, DVD ISO format).
OpenBSD 4.0 heart system
Packages You can create this directory, and the packages in it
The OpenBSD system & 39; basic installation is the following: files, but that& 39;s not & 39; a complete list:
INSTALL . I386; INSTALL.linux; base40.tgz; bsd; bsd.mp; bsd.rd; cd40.iso; " cdboot "; cdbr; xbase40.tgz; cdrom40.fs; xshare40. Tgz, etc.
It is important to say that the ISO file can not burn to a CD as a single file, such as an MP3 file - it will be possible in this way, but, but you are not in the able to start from d & 39, a CD / DVD. If you use Windows, the right way for the burning of ISO-image is & 39 d & 39; use & 39; option & quot; l & burn amp; 39; picture & quot; in programs like Nero Burning ROM (or & quot; burn l & 39; ISO & quot; d & 39; in other programs). FreeBSD can burn l & 39; ISO image with the command burncd (if your CD-ROM is the master on the second IDE channel; & quot;-s & quot; is the speed):
burncd-f / dev / S 4-acd0 data my openbsd.iso fixate
It Would it be a good idea to the bootable DVD with OpenBSD packages contained in it - it is enough, and they download it in a directory (eg in a list of & quot; packages & quot;), where your OpenBSD system & 39; installation and application of the highest Mkisofs command.
OpenBSD in action
The system runs faster (some say much faster than Linux). If you use the X-Window environment & 39; during the Setup Wizard & 39; text, you only need to initiate & quot; xorgcfg & quot; by the console for configuring the X Window environment.
Did you lose - you somewhere in the text mode? Use the F5 key (Ctrl + Alt + F5) to return to the X-Window. Are you a complete beginner? Enter & quot; man afterboot & quot;. Are you familiar to Linux and you prefer a kind of terminal Linux? After each connection, OpenBSD requires the input terminals of the type that you want to use, but the standard version - vt220 - map & 39; n is not correct, if the keys of programs such as Midnight Commander (eg , F7 as F6, etc.). Input & quot; nxterm & quot; all should work OK.
A manual configuration in text mode is the absolute here. Almost all are from - the first choice of any good administrator, as he l & 39; ultimate control over the entire system & 39;. Users can also, with Unix and see what& 39;s under the hood. To X-Window System, just run the & quot; startx & quot;. If you want to change or re-edit configuration files, look in the directory / etc with vi as your editor.
OpenBSD 4.0 is available for most tasks desktop or network. After j & 39; have downloaded some nice MP3 player, I could listen to music immediately. X Window & 39; style is no different from n & 39; any Unix box.
If you l & 39; euphoria to see the KDE or Gnome, and other applications , which & 39; gently you can quickly disappointed - OpenBSD has fewer packages, Linux or FreeBSD. For example, the race on FreeBSD VMware was possible for long enough; OpenBSD (OpenBSD, but not in the environment & 39; VMware) requires some adjustments to intelligent this.
Why OpenBSD or BSD?
Today if too many of them series of distributions, it is difficult to know that d & 39; together reacted best to our needs and can be mixed-up in such a gigantic list. When companies invest l & 39; money in a software solution, they may be disappointed when their policy of licensing changes. OpenBSD has a robust & 39; about everything - and the package will be fully reviewed to ensure the security of holes.
The d & 39, a good policy is, you feel a little bit l & amp; 39; ceiling bad behavior in the world, because you n & 39, did you worry that the network services, such as holes. Something like this happens often with Linux - their websites by users downloading patches important distributions released shortly after. By this point, the safety of OpenBSD & 39; is outside the & 39; ordinary crowd.
Juraj Sipos
Source: http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/ florinda lyndia



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