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Install OpenBSD on running Linux machine

I just found my old IBM ThinkPad 240 where I installed ArchLinux some years ago. The machine still works as intended but the package manager (pacman) does not work anymore at all. I tried to fix it ...
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Why does a default Linux installation run more processes than a default OpenBSD installation?

If I ps -aux on Ubuntu (or any GNU/Linux distribution) without GUI I see ~100 processes running. If I ps -aux on OpenBSD without GUI, then I get ~10 processes. What is the explanation/reason for ...
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How to mount an IronKey in OpenBSD?

Being that it's proprietary, maybe this isn't possible but I was wondering if anybody was successful at mounting one of these in OpenBSD. I mounted the two partitions the USB drive creates which are ...
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OpenBSD NFS server with Linux NFS clients — file size limit?

I've set up an NFS server on OpenBSD 4.9. The client is Arch Linux x86-64. The mount has no problems with small files but when trying to read large files (in the example, an 7.4G iso file) it will ...
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Performance difference between Ubuntu & OpenBSD? [closed]

Are there any performance differences between e.g.: Ubuntu 11.04 and OpenBSD 4.9? I mean using them on a laptop. e.g.: EXT4 is faster then OpenBSD's fs? UPDATE: I mean for e.g.: everyday desktop use, ...
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Find server with small ping latency (my script, but can anyone write it in e.g.: Perl?) [closed]

I want to download OpenBSD with FTP with a script, and I want to download it from a server that is near me. So I want to choose a mirror that has low "ping latency". I wrote a little script, that ...
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Does PGPDesktop supports OpenBSD or e.g. Fedora?

Does PGPDesktop support OpenBSD or e.g. Fedora, or can I only encrypt my whole hard drive when I use Windows?
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Free/Open Source secure Skype alternative on Fedora & OpenBSD?

Criteria: Audio/video calls Encrypt the whole traffic [with a good encryption] ported to windows 7 too runs on Fedora, OpenBSD Does anybody know a good alternative?