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282 points paulnpace | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source
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president_zippy ◴[22 Oct 25 04:09 UTC] No.45664811[source]▶
I'm impressed that they still maintain PA-RISC support even though HP discontinued that architecture in 2008.

They maintain all these architectures in such a small, consolidated codebase with such minimal (if any) bloat.

Their built-in httpd is far and away the best experience I ever had setting up a static file server for my local network, and I can't think of many times where I would ever need anything I couldn't do with the built-in FastCGI support.

I'm also pleasantly surprised by how well Chicago95 (a Windows 95-style UI based on xfce) works on OpenBSD, even though the author never intended to run it on anything but xubuntu. I wouldn't recommend trying that unless you're willing to roll up your sleeves, but the payoff definitely justifies the elbow grease if you like that look and feel better than xenodm, XFCE, or GNOME.

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1. brynet ◴[22 Oct 25 04:46 UTC] No.45664978[source]▶
> Chicago95

I did a thing. :-)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brynet_openbsd-activity-73074...

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2. president_zippy ◴[22 Oct 25 16:29 UTC] No.45671590[source]▶
You did a lot of cool things, mister. How do I send you pizza (from one of the good places)?

Glad to see how many high-value changes OpenBSD is receiving. You just inspired me to get Chicago95 up and running on an old MacBook I have lying around right now, and replace the battery. I run it off of an old Lenovo Thinkcentre that I use as a server on my local network, but I haven't been using it as my daily driver. The number of things I can run on macOS is a lot smaller than it used to be 15 years ago, so I might give OpenBSD another shot as my daily driver.

P.S. I didn't know there were other people interested in using Chicago95 on OpenBSD, let alone OpenBSD contributors. Good stuff, man!

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3. brynet ◴[22 Oct 25 18:51 UTC] No.45673505[source]▶
Yeah, after this was ported to OpenBSD by kn@ earlier this year. I just found the combination to be silly, booting OpenBSD on an Apple Silicon Mac to run a Win95 themed DE with the classic Windows 95 startup sound, it does require some tweaking. I also followed the instructions on the GitHub project page.

> How do I send you pizza (from one of the good places)?

You certainly don't have to, but I appreciate it!

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html