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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.

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Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
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Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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What could i expect from trying OpenBSD as a Arch user ? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Titou@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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So i was thinking about to give OpenBSD a try to see if it could fit a minimalist user like me. I know it's not made for desktop users, which is not my case(i use Dwm, a limited amount of packages and tweaking my system dosn't scare me).

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The difficulty of using OpenBSD has been highly overstated. If you're used to Arch Linux you will probably find OpenBSD pretty easy and probably much less tedious lol. It actually is meant for desktop use. A basic graphical environment comes with the system and the installer will ask you if you want it to run at boot. The availability of desktop-related ports (BSD word for third-party packages) is quite good too. I run OpenBSD on my desktop and everywhere else and really like it, most of the time lol. OpenBSD is meant to be really easy to set up and for everything to more or less work out of the box with good default settings.

One thing that tends to trip up new users is that the resource quotas for the default login classes (users are separated into different classes which have different capabilities) are quite low, so if you see programs running out of memory or not being able to start new processes, just raise your limits in login.conf. There's a manpage about it. OpenBSD has great documentation.

If you decide to try, let us know how it goes!