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OpenBSD 6.0 with XFCE Desktop Installation and Review on VMware

This video tutorial shows how to install OpenBSD 6.0 with Xfce Desktop and review on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. We also install some basic applications such as Firefox, Nano, Gimp and VLC media player. We also install VMware Tools on OpenBSD for better VM performance and usability features. This tutorial is also helpful to installing OpenBSD 6.0 on physical computer or laptop hardware.

OpenBSD 6.0 Installation Steps:

1. Download OpenBSD 6.0 ISO
2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start OpenBSD Installation
4. Installing XFCE Desktop and SLIM Login Manager
5. Installing VMware Tools
6. Installing Applications: Firefox, Nano, Gimp and VLC Media Player
7. OpenBSD 6.0 Review

Installing OpenBSD 6.0 with XFCE Desktop and Applications on VMware

What is OpenBSD?

The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform BSD 4.4-based UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardization, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project also develops the widely-used and popular OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) software which provides encrypted communication over a network using the SSH protocol.
OpenBSD Website: https://www.openbsd.org/

OpenBSD 6.0 New Features and Improvements

OpenBSD 6.0 introduces many bug fixes, improved driver support for many devices and fixes a number of potential security issues in OpenSSH. The new release also features a new tool, proot, for building software ports in an isolated chroot environment. Support for the VAX platform has been dropped for this release. New/extended platforms: armv7 - EFI bootloader added, kernels are now loaded from FFS instead of FAT or EXT file systems, without U-Boot headers. A single kernel and ramdisk are now used for all SoCs. Hardware is dynamically enumerated via Flattened Device Tree (FDT) instead of via static tables based on board id numbers. Miniroot installer images include U-Boot 2016.07 with support for EFI payloads.

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