I'm sorry to bother everyone with seemingly the same video. But I've reflimed this today in order to improve the quality of the video. Thank you to JM for pointing this out to me. Have a good day/night everyone. Look forward to the reflimed OpenBSD version as I'm editing that as we speak. It should be done by morning.
Hi. Just watch your videos and they were very educational. I'd appreciate if you'd do the following videos 1) Installing NetBSD on zfs root 2) Setting up freebsd emulation on NetBSD (32bit) 3) Setting up linux emulation on NetBSD (32bit or 64bit) 4) Porting applications or programs to pkgsrc Also can you explain why 32bit and 64bit linux emulation works on 64bit NetBSD but neither 32bit or 64bit freebsd emulation works on 64bit NetBSD (as specified on NetBSD website)
A very informative video. Thank you. Any possibility that you could cover more complex topics like how to compile a kernel? I ran into this when someone tried to help me get NetBSD running on an AMD Ryzen computer of mine at the correct resolution, but he got frustrated and gave up, when I had difficulty going through the steps to compile a kernel for the first time…
I have a video that walks through how to compile a custom kernel on FreeBSD. The steps and concepts are similar enough that you would be able to transfer them over to NetBSD quite easily. Here's my video on it. th-cam.com/video/AFiYpLUL2_k/w-d-xo.html More specific NetBSD information on the process. www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
I tried NetBSD with XFCE. It took 1Gb of ram, my 2008 laptop didn't like that. But same ish install with Slackware it runs quite alright. With about 250mb memory reserved. Why is it like so?
A lot of it has to do with two factors. 1. How the window manager/desktop environment was compiled into binary. 2. What software the window manager/desktop environment pulls in as dependencies. The best example of this I've experienced, was years ago when I installed gentoo after using ubuntu 9.10 for a long time on my acer laptop back when gnome2 was commonly used and not called mate like it is today. The gentoo port of gnome2 I installed with emerge only used a whopping 70MB of RAM for the entire DE running vs 500MB-600MB of RAM in ubuntu. For the same DE. All because the gentoo version didn't pull in a lot of extra bells and whistles that the ubuntu version did. And it does help that you have easier access to compile time options in gentoo compared to ubuntu. For instance source code of applications like firefox contain compiler options and turn on support for lets say some gtk even though you might be using kde instead which primarily uses qt. gtk and qt are two different ways graphical programs are written. My point is if I'm not using certain features of firefox I don't compile it with those options thus making the resulting binary smaller and faster to run on my system. Anyway it's just a huge trade off between convenience and performance, after all most distros try very hard to make everything work out of the box together. Which is good but some like gentoo or the BSDs allow the user to tweak and optimize their programs which is one of the many advantages of using systems like these. Hope that helps answer your question Novum and thank you for still watching my videos.
This is the xterm command I use in my .ratpoisonrc file. "xterm -fn 9x15 -bg black -fg green" That should help just make sure to bind the xterm command to a key stroke inside of ratpoison don't just copy and paste the above command without a keybinding followed by an exec command. Also there are other fonts to choose from I just can't remember the names of them at the moment. Hope that helps you. Thank you for watching my videos Alain I really appreciate it very much!
Maybe see if searching something like "xorg xterm font names unix" and that should at least bring up other font names that might be larger text than the font I use.
@@teetechtm thanks, I remembered that if I right click while pressing the alt key, you can , there is a menu that opens up, then you can change some fonts from there, but I have to do it again every time I do startx…
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I'm sorry to bother everyone with seemingly the same video. But I've reflimed this today in order to improve the quality of the video. Thank you to JM for pointing this out to me.
Have a good day/night everyone. Look forward to the reflimed OpenBSD version as I'm editing that as we speak. It should be done by morning.
Hi. Just watch your videos and they were very educational. I'd appreciate if you'd do the following videos
1) Installing NetBSD on zfs root
2) Setting up freebsd emulation on NetBSD (32bit)
3) Setting up linux emulation on NetBSD (32bit or 64bit)
4) Porting applications or programs to pkgsrc
Also can you explain why 32bit and 64bit linux emulation works on 64bit NetBSD but neither 32bit or 64bit freebsd emulation works on 64bit NetBSD (as specified on NetBSD website)
A very informative video. Thank you. Any possibility that you could cover more complex topics like how to compile a kernel? I ran into this when someone tried to help me get NetBSD running on an AMD Ryzen computer of mine at the correct resolution, but he got frustrated and gave up, when I had difficulty going through the steps to compile a kernel for the first time…
I have a video that walks through how to compile a custom kernel on FreeBSD. The steps and concepts are similar enough that you would be able to transfer them over to NetBSD quite easily.
Here's my video on it.
th-cam.com/video/AFiYpLUL2_k/w-d-xo.html
More specific NetBSD information on the process.
www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
I tried NetBSD with XFCE. It took 1Gb of ram, my 2008 laptop didn't like that. But same ish install with Slackware it runs quite alright. With about 250mb memory reserved. Why is it like so?
A lot of it has to do with two factors.
1. How the window manager/desktop environment was compiled into binary.
2. What software the window manager/desktop environment pulls in as dependencies.
The best example of this I've experienced, was years ago when I installed gentoo after using ubuntu 9.10 for a long time on my acer laptop back when gnome2 was commonly used and not called mate like it is today. The gentoo port of gnome2 I installed with emerge only used a whopping 70MB of RAM for the entire DE running vs 500MB-600MB of RAM in ubuntu. For the same DE. All because the gentoo version didn't pull in a lot of extra bells and whistles that the ubuntu version did. And it does help that you have easier access to compile time options in gentoo compared to ubuntu.
For instance source code of applications like firefox contain compiler options and turn on support for lets say some gtk even though you might be using kde instead which primarily uses qt. gtk and qt are two different ways graphical programs are written. My point is if I'm not using certain features of firefox I don't compile it with those options thus making the resulting binary smaller and faster to run on my system.
Anyway it's just a huge trade off between convenience and performance, after all most distros try very hard to make everything work out of the box together. Which is good but some like gentoo or the BSDs allow the user to tweak and optimize their programs which is one of the many advantages of using systems like these.
Hope that helps answer your question Novum and thank you for still watching my videos.
@@teetechtm Aha, interesting.. You make interesting videos in a good format. Keep it up and Stay Safe
@@TheNovum Thank you and you stay safe too.
How do I make the fonts bigger in the windows of ratpoison ?, thanks for the your netbsd videos !
This is the xterm command I use in my .ratpoisonrc file.
"xterm -fn 9x15 -bg black -fg green"
That should help just make sure to bind the xterm command to a key stroke inside of ratpoison don't just copy and paste the above command without a keybinding followed by an exec command. Also there are other fonts to choose from I just can't remember the names of them at the moment.
Hope that helps you. Thank you for watching my videos Alain I really appreciate it very much!
@@teetechtm thank you!
@@teetechtm The colours work but the fonts still a stay kind of small ?
Maybe see if searching something like "xorg xterm font names unix" and that should at least bring up other font names that might be larger text than the font I use.
@@teetechtm thanks, I remembered that if I right click while pressing the alt key, you can , there is a menu that opens up, then you can change some fonts from there, but I have to do it again every time I do startx…
Crazy that X was running as root...
Well it can run either way... But the less root processes the better...