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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by jackhalford on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:13PM (#22023092)
none of those solutions apply the BSDs though
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by LeoPanthera on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:53PM (#22023586)
Can you run graphical applications inside a BSD jail?
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by beefhash on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:31AM (#22025779)
Pedantic note: Jails are not a BSD concept, they're a FreeBSD concept. OpenBSD has no notion of jails.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by dddddaviddddd on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:51AM (#22026497)
Yes. Here's an example for Firefox on FreeBSD: https://wiki.freebsd.org/VladimirKrstulja/Guides/JailingGUIA...
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by napsterbr on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:56PM (#22023909)
You can with SSH and X11 forwarding. Whether that's practical is a different question and may vary according to the application and user
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by toast0 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:17PM (#22023995)
You wouldn't need to use SSH, just linking/bind mounting the X socket and xauth into the jail (plus/minus whatever shm stuff).
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by markstos on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:18PM (#22023114)
True.
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