Post by @MsDropbear42@infosec.space

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am becoming so despondent at the slopbot invasion in linux, seemingly getting worse weekly [oh linus! 💔], that more & more i ponder a possible #BSD escape route, yet nothing i read anywhere so far gives me any confidence at all that i would be capable of handling all the technical challenges involved. i just want a daily desktop, not a server, & i want it not for a technical challenge at all but simply so i can use my apps to do the stuff i need... which is not at all database or server related in any way. i've just finished perusing a few dozen subreddit threads on the three arguably best known BSDs, & it was nothing but depressing & demoralising

in 2013 when i tired of 20+ years of redmond arseholery & shitfuckery, i discovered linux & was delighted with it, entirely meeting all my needs ever since. now however, with this very same hitherto paradise apparently rushing to sleep with the enemy, it feels like i have no realistic escape option

faaaaaaaaaaaaarque!

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@MsDropbear42@infosec.space 6 days ago

@MsDropbear42 Given Linus’ complete move over to the dark side 😡, my thoughts are further intensifying about escape paths. Further playing with my Haiku VM is really endearing it to me. It has almost all of the apps i need, otherwise has solid alternatives, is fast as fuck, is quirky & fun. Atm the major unsolved issue afaict, which would be a showstopper if i can’t solve or workaround, is security. Specifically it is atm only single-user, so one does not login to a session, one simply boots directly to the desktop, & similarly afaict not only is there no disk nor partition LUKS [or similar] encryption, so far i’ve not found a way to even just be able to do, or mimic, a #TrueCrypt / #VeraCrypt function of creating an encrypted container in which one can then securely store one’s docs & data.

If i can’t solve that, then a workaround would be to keep basically nothing important in the #Haiku partition, but access “my” stuff in my existing Shared Data partition that lives on another SSD. In other words, i’ve more or less reached the limits of the VM’s purpose now, & prolly need to embrace attempting to install it in a spare partition in Towie [ignoring the old clunker single-task media pooter, the actual "doing stuff" pooters are "Towie" & "Lappy" 🤪], then see if i can access Shared from it. Were it so, then… well, it all becomes very exciting!

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@MsDropbear42@infosec.space 3 days ago

@MsDropbear42 ah well, alas. it seems my brief flirtation with the interesting #Haiku must now be at an end.

installed it in Towie’s spare partition on the larger of my two new SSDs, in which already are two working non-encrypted data partitions
boots fine, if the installer USB-stick is still plugged in
boots into rescue screen when stick unplugged [ie, the installer seems to have put the bootloader onto the stick not the partition]
with stick back in, boots fine again, so then explored possible mounting other drives & partitions
- can see both those non-LUKS data partitions on the same SSD
- warned me when mounting them that due to them not having the BeOS filesystem, & the Beta nature of Haiku, it would happily let me mount them as read-write but advised me tis safer to mount as read-only to prevent risk of data loss on them! So, ofc, i did RO
  - in doing so, i realised this was the puckering of the lips for the kiss of death for Haiku
- reopened the Mounts GUI app, looked for the essential LUKS Shared Data partition back on the original SSD [wherein also resides Arch]. Nada, zilch… that partition is invisible to Haiku
  - i recognised this as Haiku now delivering the kiss of death

tis sad, genuinely sad

So now, in coming weeks, hope rests with the #BSDs, & this intriguing #OpenIndiana wotsit. Ofc, if these possibilities also fall short of what i can accept, then i suppose it’s just me resigning myself to an inevitability of wall to wall enslopped penguins without any pragmatic escape left for me

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@MsDropbear42@infosec.space 3 hr. ago

@MsDropbear42 well, i've spent some time now researching #OpenIndiana, via these sources if anyone's interested:

https://www.openindiana.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-openindiana-and-why-does-it-matter/
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openindiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsiF0Lfl2FU
https://medium.com/@post_18657/openindiana-hipster-an-excursion-to-the-past-c26110673659
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1ixpwxz/off_topicany_tried_openindiana_share_your/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23K-Bh0YA-M
https://linuxmind.dev/2025/09/04/complete-os-guide-openindiana-how-it-works-orientation-and-curiosities/
https://www.quora.com/Solaris-Whats-special-for-OpenIndiana-compare-with-Linux-and-BSD

though i was tempted to d/l an ISO & give it a burl anyway in a VM, i've decided not to, & thus to end the brief contemplation of this as my possible escape route. based on the research i picked up a strong vibe this would not much suit me; OI is really aimed for server rather than desktop usage, despite it having an old MATE DE out of the box. it has a tiny community, no GUI pkg manager, questionable security against contemporary standards, & i would hold grave doubts of being able to acquire most of my important pkgs from its repos, which would be the only recourse coz, eg, i would very much doubt apps like FirefoxNightly, GnuCash, KeePassXC, RustDesk et al make variants for this non-Linux system. overall, it feels like a massive trip into the past.

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Paul McEwan

@PaulMcEwan@eigenmagic.net 15 min. ago

@MsDropbear42 Thanks very much for all those URLs, including info RE #OpenIndiana.

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@PaulMcEwan@eigenmagic.net 2 days ago

@MsDropbear42 Not that it's any of my business but I'd be curious which version of #BDS you decide to investigate.

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@MsDropbear42@infosec.space 2 days ago

@PaulMcEwan

Not that it's any of my business

nonsense! this is fedi -- everything is everyone's business! 🤪🙃

which version of #BDS you decide to investigate

first off, i simply must really emphasise --- atm my knowledge of #BSD approximates that of Linux when i first heard of it in 2013, ie...

i know narthink, naaaaaaaarrrrthink, herr commandant / col-on-el hogan!

that said, i've been trying to begin my learning curve in recent weeks via research, from which i shall probably try, in this sequence...

...initially as i always do, in dedicated qemu VMs in my current penguin, & if then one or more of them look/s like they might be a serious possibility for me, then i would hope to move onto HW installation

i had big hopes for #GhostBSD, simply coz apparently it would already have done all the dirty work for me wrt setting up the DE, but sadly a knowledgeable fedier informed me of it having some serious security issues, so i have moved it off my shortlist

last week another kind soul here in fedi informed me of something else also unknown to me; #OpenIndiana, so i hope this week to also research it, then decide if it warrants also trying it in a VM

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