cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23633869

How could I get started with BSD?

hello,

I want to learn and deep dive into BSD systems. I am a Linux user for more than 3 years and now I am curious to learn and use BSD since BSD is similar to Linux and has binary compatibility.

sadly my laptop wifi card isn't supported by any BSD systems. so I can't use it as my daily driver. so where should I go or do to learn more about BSD?

KDE launched version 6 of its Plasma desktop environment on February 28, 2024, bringing numerous updates and features as well as the major switch to Qt6. I am immensely proud that the OpenBSD team has managed to prepare for this major update so swiftly. All necessary components have been committed to our CVS tree, and the packages will soon be available.

YES! KDE6 landed in OpenBSD -current

Hetzner (like many other providers) do not provide #OpenBSD machines.. but there is a nice #syadmin trick to install your beloved OS over whatever they provide. In this video we will see how you. In short:

1. Create your #GNU / #Linux machine
2. Login, wget & dd the IMG
3. Reboot in Console and install using network installation (say http packages)
4. Reboot in your new OS
5. Have fun.

A comprehensive guide by Rafael Sadowski on audio and screen recording on OpenBSD.

I frequently find myself needing to rerun commands with the -h flag, and I was just wondering why it is not the default behavior of programs to show sizes in human-readable terms?

I'm trying to figure out if the following happens just to me or for everyone. If you have a file, let's call it "myfile", that you know is encoded in UTF-8, what is your output for:
$ file myfile
?

I have a freshly installed OpenBSD 7.3, where I think I've set the locale to en_US.UTF-8. If I manually make a file with some characters like "åäö", file outputs "ISO-8859 text". If I copy/paste some unicode characters from the web, file outputs "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text". If I send these files to a Linux computer and run file it outputs "UTF-8".

Maybe relevant info:
$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

$ env | grep "UTF"
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8

On VGA it is 1920x1200 and in virtio and qxl even less , what can be done to change this ?