🔗 First time playing with OpenBSD

A list of notes on my first experience with OpenBSD:

* It wasn’t obvious at first which file to download, navigating their FTP site. I ended up with cd58.iso, which was the right choice. A tiny 7.8MB ISO!
* As soon as I typed “OpenBSD” as the VM name in VirtualBox, it gave me OpenBSD defaults. It defaulted to 64MB of RAM (only!), but I chose 256M, and the default 2G disk image.
* The first boot gave me a few options, including “Install” and “Autoinstall”. I chose “Autoinstall” since I thought that would install with the defaults, but it looked for an installation script in the local network (and obviously didn’t find it). Reboot, “Install” and off we go.
* No Dvorak options in the list of keyboards in the installer.
* I went with the default options and installed all offered packages (it offered me a list of coarse-grained bundles). It asked me about creating users, partitions, configuring network and if I wanted to run sshd by default.
* To enable Dvorak, the internet told me to do kbd us.dvorak nice.
* To make it permanent, I just grepped /etc for kbd and found out that cat us.dvorak > /etc/kbdtype would suffice.
* To install things, become root and then use pkg_add. For example: pkg_add wget
* By default it includes df but not free.
* To get color in the terminal, set TERM=wsvt25. htop showed in its usual colors!
* The default PATH includes the current (.) directory! Take that, Linux status quo!
* iconv is installed under /usr/local, and its library exports symbols with names such as libiconv_open instead of the usual iconv_open, which fools the typical AC_CHECK_LIB test in Autoconf. (In the source code, iconv_open works, so I guess iconv.h uses #define to translate the name. Added a hack to Dit to make it build cleanly out-of-the-box.