From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:46:16 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: <20170929085923.nclqn5g4xang4vii@client.local> References: <201709270844.v8R8i2kd021180@freefriends.org> <201709281349.v8SDnHp2005910@freefriends.org> <20170928222056.GD28606@mcvoy.com> <20170929085923.nclqn5g4xang4vii@client.local> Message-ID: <21d2ce3b-dd08-bc7d-b6bc-b1ae4acfaa1b@tnetconsulting.net> On 09/29/2017 02:59 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > My main work setup today is actually a diskless (X11-less) OpenBSD > system. It's just something I set up in a VM environment to learn how > to do it (I'm on a work laptop running Windows 10, as I need Windows > for some few work-related tasks), but it works just fine and I have no > reason to change it. For one thing, it makes backups easier as they can > run locally on the server. I think you're the first person that I've seen say "I am" and not "I used to" regarding diskless. Can I ask for a high level overview of your config? I am guessing dhcp and / or bootp, combined with tftp for kernel image, and NFS for root. > OpenBSD has this "dpb" thing ("distributed ports builder", > /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/dpb, http://man.openbsd.org/dpb) that > does distributed building of 3rd-party packages. It does exactly this, > sharing the sources over NFS. Interesting. -- Grant. . . . unix || die -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3717 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: