Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project

Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by INTPenis on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:04AM (#10758431)

Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently? There was a point about simplifying its configuration syntax.

Also, as a long time BSD fanboy, I've never considered OpenBSD to be a desktop OS. It's a great OS that I use on routers and servers, but never a desktop. I had a period where I used FreeBSD on my laptop but once I went Linux, I never looked back.

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by moviuro on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:11AM (#10758475)

The utility is now doas(1) (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...)

Also, I'm surprised: I'm actually thinking about leaving Linux to put FreeBSD (or OpenBSD?) on my laptop (Linux is just too unstable and base utilities change non-stop: ip(8), iw(8), ifconfig(8), iwconfig(8), dhcpcd(8), systemd...)

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by gnuvince on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:43AM (#10758992)

> Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently? There was a point about simplifying its configuration syntax.

As the other two commenters said, you must be thinking of doas. Doas isn't a rewrite of sudo, it's an entirely new program with a different goal: capture the most common use cases of sudo and do away with most of the complexity to support the more involved scenario. This is a pretty common pattern in OpenBSD actually: provide the simple tool by default, let power users install the more complex tools if they need it for their work.

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by Gracana on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:08AM (#10758454)

> Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently?

You're thinking of doas, perhaps?

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by dwc on Friday December 18, 2015 @03:30PM (#10760741)

Have you tried OpenBSD for desktop? FreeBSD on the desktop is, well, a pain. Hence PCBSD. But OpenBSD is actually pretty good at being a desktop, as long as you can live without some things like Flash and other things that will never be there.

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by floatboth on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:20PM (#10761016)

PC-BSD is "the Ubuntu of BSD" – a preconfigured GUI, a GUI app "store" etc. If you can install OpenBSD, you don't need it.

FreeBSD on the desktop is not a pain!

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by dwc on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:25PM (#10761401)

FreeBSD on the desktop used be take a fair amount of fiddling. If that's no longer true then that's awesome! :)

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by vive-la-liberte on Friday December 18, 2015 @07:28PM (#10761989)

A major cause of pain people are hit by when they try to use an operating system other than Windows is that they are uninformed about hardware compatibility. Frequently, when someone wants to try out a new OS, they'll try to install on their desktop/laptop/whatever and they will be frustrated to find a broken mess.

The correct way to get started with a new OS is to first try it out in a virtual machine. If you find that you enjoy using it, buy compatible hardware and go metal.

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Re:Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project by SixSigma on Friday December 18, 2015 @03:53PM (#10760848)

Strange, it's my desktop. I wonder how I manage.

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