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Slightly different but OpenBSD does a good job of finding artists, for example the artwork for 6.5 and 6.6 was drawn by Natasha Allegri of Adventure Time and Bee and PuppyCat

https://www.openbsd.org/66.html




They also designed probably the best t-shirt art for an OS release, no longer available, sadly.

https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html#47

https://twitter.com/natazilla/status/1187896621045956608


Oh man I was just thinking that would make an awesome t-shirt, wish it was still available.


If you're willing to play in the darker shades or gray, there are plenty of websites that will print up posters/t-shirts/etc of any image you upload to them. Even as one offs. JIT of swag is a real thing now


I keep hearing more and more about OpenBSD. Lots of people including John Carmack, browse the source code and have nothing but good things to say about it. It's made me very curious to look at it myself


I run OpenBSD on my laptop. I love it, but I would recommend that beginners read some warnings on the label.

First, you will not have bluetooth. Second, it is slow in ways that will matter. As in, you will feel it, but not be annoyed by it (Especially with a web browser). Third, KDE plasma support is a work in progress (read: most people do not get KDE plasma on an OpenBSD installation today, although it won't stay like this forever).

With these disclaimers out of the way, I can heartily encourage it. I love having an operating system that I can trust. Things work, things are well doccumented and things are very very clean.


That's a fair assessment. One more thing I would add is that things you can frequently get working on FreeBSD (like JetBrains IDEs) might be significantly more challenging (or impossible) on an OpenBSD desktop.

I'm a long-time fan of OpenBSD (I started using it in 1999) and I strongly second reading the warnings on the label.


I’ve played around with FreeBSD before and have a WiFi dongle from when I put it on an RPI. I have an old X220 for these type of experiments, but I appreciate the warning


OpenBSD runs fine on my X220i, and its Intel WiFi (iwn) is supported. But, the firmware has to be downloaded separately, so you either have to copy the firmware onto a USB drive and run fw_update after installation, or plug in Ethernet before installing, and it'll download the firmware automatically after the first boot.


I was surprised how well it works in a lot of ways on my laptop (Thinkpad E585 with an aftermarket Intel wireless card). I will agree with the slowness, and I have managed to make it freeze once or twice, and fail to suspend properly quite a few times.

But in terms of "the Wi-fi actually worked without pulling teeth" it was streets ahead of both FreeBSD and Debian.


Shoutout to Bee and Puppycat as well, of which the entire first season is freely available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2DcNkn8HAwQLcXTiDB87...


Note that this is very different than the first season on Netflix fwiw. Both are great though!


Man that's some pretty badass BSD artwork too.



Damn that’s legit. Anyone know if I can just tip the artist and print it myself?


why is the latest release seemingly the only one without a release "song"?




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