Gothub is live
55 points by gonzalo
55 points by gonzalo
What is the core difference / advantage of got from git? The post doesn't explain it, and the links in the post either go to the got man page (which seems more-or-less equivalent to git) or the got website, which just says it's designed for openbsd developers.
Why would I want to use got if I'm not an openbsd dev?
The only thing we should trust about Microsoft is that they'll screw up anything they touch. There are upsides, though: for instance, people in general wouldn't be talking as much about AI and codebases if Microsoft didn't try to shove their AI down everyone's throats. Thank you for that, Microsoft.
It's good to see something like this from the OpenBSD folks. It should be easy to move away from Github, and this looks pretty easy.
Tangential question: how does one get started using OpenBSD (and also other BSDs maybe) and doing some for fun kernel hacking? I often see initiatives like this one from the BSD community (if I can call it that; not sure how tightly connected the communities of the various BSDs are) that I appreciate for they feel very no-bs. It’s clearly hobbyist pushing this and not enterprises.
I do find it difficult though to find a starting place. Many of the official resources that I found are highly technical and don’t contain the supporting explanations or references to other resources that I need as someone who’s new to this project. I had similar struggles with the Arch Wiki a few years ago. I feel stupid admitting this, but I’m confident that I can understand all of this if I find the right resource.
Also what kind of computer should I run OpenBSD on? I have a Framework laptop, but I read that the BSDs don’t have drivers for things like bluetooth, which means I can’t daily drive them. Probably I could get started using a Raspberry Pi? I just want something where I know I don’t need to struggle with drivers forever (at least not to get started; I imagine writing new drivers is a fun activity later on when I’m more proficient). Of course I could rent a box in the could but that’s lame; I want the computer to sit in my room.
My favorite mechanism for learning how anything works is to try and make changes to it (although it's unclear from your message if you've already managed to get OpenBSD running in a VM, or on this computer in your room). Toward that end, you may want to have a surf around https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs and see if anything sparks joy
I would say some old machine that won't be a problem to format a few times to learn or a VM, referring to a way to learning, the official FAQ is pretty good and clear in along of different things:
they link to the www.git on demo but one may be interested that a gothub mirror link is on the sidebar of openbsd.org also if you wanted to see how it behaves with more data https://openbsd.gothub.org/index.html (although, as the article implies, the anonymous browsing handshake requires an ssh interaction but I can attest that you don't need an account)