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Why? It'd never get much support and development would eventually halt. Just like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

What's with /tech/'s obsession with OSes? Is it like your first time using something that isn't Windows? It seems like the people who are the most vocal about OSes are people who have only recently begun to venture outside of really common ones. I've used Ganoo/Loonicks for over a decade and it's not that interesting anymore. Plenty of other tech things to talk about, especially considering that BSD and GNU/Linux distro desktop experiences are aging very poorly. GIMP is basically the same as it was a decade ago, and same with a lot of other FOSS shit.

That's quite pointless, it's not like all gentoo packages would suddenly work in the OpenBSD kernel just because. Just use OpenBSD.

>>1011719

>What's with /tech/'s obsession with OSes? Is it like your first time using something that isn't Windows?

God, I'm glad someone said it. It's so absurd that people are even arguing about OSes, when all they really care about is the DE (unimportant), package manager (really unimportant), and specific tweaks among Unix environments that are literally identical by nature of being Unix. A Unix kernel is just a Unix kernel. There's no gotchas or sly tricks because POSIX abstracts kernel, shell, and userland; ironically, that's the whole reason this topic exists. Literally the only differentiating factor is kernel modules and loading unnecessary proprietary blobs with retarded monolithic kernels like kFBSD for no reason other than to feel special.

>>1011733

but that's wrong, you fool

Posted from Qubes

>>1011742

special purpose distros like Qubes or Kali have their niches, but that still doesn't mean /tech/ should have threads about arguing about debian vs. arch and other useless shit

>>1011723

If the license wasn't cucked I might

>>1011768

>the main appeal of a distribution is the package manager.

This, and the support for certain things (e.g. no systemd) also matters, sometimes you can get around it but obviously you'd rather not have a buggy system.

>>1011717 (OP)

Why would I want spiky nuclear green morbidly obese 9s?

>>1011733

> package manager

> really unimportant

>>1011742

Cubes is literally just pre-configured Xen, you idiot

It already exists OP, it just needs to be updated to the latest version see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_OpenBSD/Install_Guide . From there install whatever doesn't depend on linux specific systemcalls or checking for them which varies by package. Some packages just need a simple syscall change to the openbsd native version as a patch. Other programs need a total rewrite because the similar syscall has different functionality. It varies and your milage will vary.

>>1011911

"just"? turnkey solutions are a big deal

that's like saying pfSense is "just preconfigured pf"

>>1011860

It really is.