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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by brobdingnagians on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:34AM (#26492641)
I use OpenBSD for most of my servers, with FreeBSD mixed in too. It is very simple to administer, easy to upgrade (sysupgrade every six months, syspatch otherwise), reliable, and fits how I like to administer it. Pf on OpenBSD has pf auth which allows unblocking ports for users who have sshed in, which is nice when you are on a dynamic IP. It is generally just a nice system, minimalist, and straight forward. I don't want a million moving parts, just a UNIX platform to build on.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by mjthompson on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:02PM (#26493005)
I've recently switched my home network jump box to OpenBSD. Still learning the basics. I didn't even know about authpf. I'm reading the docs now and it looks great. Thanks for sharing that.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by aj3 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:40PM (#26495203)
> sysupgrade every six months, syspatch otherwise

But that won't keep your system up to date with security patches, because OpenBSD does not rebuild binary packages.

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by throwawayboise on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:44PM (#26495948)
They do now.

Binary packages for -stable are rebuilt only for security issues or other major fixes. Simply call pkg_add(1) with the -u flag to get the new files.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by aj3 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:57PM (#26497267)
But that's just not true, check out how often they rebuild Chromium for their stable branch.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by chungy on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:14PM (#26497439)
Chromium isn't part of the base system. There's some misunderstanding here between the base system and ports.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by nix23 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:28PM (#26495779)
Sure they do, and he talked just about the system, remember packets and the system are two different thing in the bsd-world.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by aj3 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:57PM (#26497263)
I doubt anyone manages to get with just the OpenBSD system on their desktop. Browsers in particular are a gaping security hole if not updated regularly.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by nix23 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:13PM (#26498396)
https://stable.mtier.org/
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by aj3 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:43PM (#26506015)
No Chromium, no Firefox.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by nix23 on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:17AM (#26513603)
Because it's already in the official package-tree:

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.8/packages-stable/amd6...

firefox-esr-78.8.0.tgz

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