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chaosbsd-installer :: tty0

ChaosBSD 16-QUANTUM interactive installer

Based on FreeBSD 16. Anything sane on Phabricator gets cherry picked. The rest is ours.

WARNING: this installer does not install ChaosBSD. Nobody sane should install ChaosBSD.

Instead, it will interrogate you and assign you an operating system you can actually live with.

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Linux

The largest driver collection in history. If a chip exists, someone has made it work. Mainstream, well-documented, everywhere. Learn more

FreeBSD

A complete operating system from one project. ZFS, Jails, stability, Netflix infrastructure. Everything tested together. Learn more

OpenBSD

Security obsessed. Aggressive code auditing, exploit mitigations invented here, two remote holes in a decade. pf firewall. Learn more

NetBSD

Portability is a virtue. Runs on machines other systems dropped decades ago. Your 15-year-old laptop gets a second life. Learn more

DragonFly BSD

Novel kernel design. HAMMER2 filesystem. SMP scaling that actually works. Small community, genuine research. Learn more

T2SDE Linux

Source-based, cross-compiled, museum grade. SGI, PA-RISC, m68k, and two dozen other architectures. One maintainer, total clarity. Learn more

JailStation 47

FreeBSD 16 for consoles. Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3 today, PS4 and PS5 planned. You paid for the hardware. Take the keys. Learn more

ChaosBSD

Scrap hardware. No fear. You said you would write the driver yourself. Not a recommendation. A diagnosis. Learn more