Re:Crowding out OpenBSD
by klibertp on Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:41PM
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> I'm not saying that nobody does
I did, once, for a year or so. It was around 2004, I think, and what caused me to transition was a slightly too big number of bugs in FreeBSD at the time. And not too good support for USB and sound, IIRC.
OpenBSD was stable like mountain, rock solid, ran xfce (my second favorite WM) without any problems and was even better documented and even tidier in it's design than FreeBSD. It supported all of my hardware at the time, the sound card was enabled by default and the ports were in much better shape than in FBSD - they actually compiled, every single one that I tried, while FBSD had quite a few broken ones. Overall, the experience was very good and I migrated back to FreeBSD much later than I was able to (ie. when all the issues were fixed) just because of this.
So no, I would say that this entire thread is missing the point - OpenBSD has a potential to be a good desktop OS, at least at one point in time it actually was a good desktop OS and it could benefit from being one once again (if it somehow ended not being one now, I don't know about present).
I hate Linux with it's numerous distributions with passion - any BSD is just so much more elegant, consistent, intuitive (probably I just got used to them) and clean - and I won't use Linux anymore (I did, for a few years back when Y2K bug was popular). For people like me FreeBSD is an obvious solution, but if it irritates me again I'll look in OpenBSD direction. I'd be very happy if it was ready to accept me as a desktop user then.
I did, once, for a year or so. It was around 2004, I think, and what caused me to transition was a slightly too big number of bugs in FreeBSD at the time. And not too good support for USB and sound, IIRC.
OpenBSD was stable like mountain, rock solid, ran xfce (my second favorite WM) without any problems and was even better documented and even tidier in it's design than FreeBSD. It supported all of my hardware at the time, the sound card was enabled by default and the ports were in much better shape than in FBSD - they actually compiled, every single one that I tried, while FBSD had quite a few broken ones. Overall, the experience was very good and I migrated back to FreeBSD much later than I was able to (ie. when all the issues were fixed) just because of this.
So no, I would say that this entire thread is missing the point - OpenBSD has a potential to be a good desktop OS, at least at one point in time it actually was a good desktop OS and it could benefit from being one once again (if it somehow ended not being one now, I don't know about present).
I hate Linux with it's numerous distributions with passion - any BSD is just so much more elegant, consistent, intuitive (probably I just got used to them) and clean - and I won't use Linux anymore (I did, for a few years back when Y2K bug was popular). For people like me FreeBSD is an obvious solution, but if it irritates me again I'll look in OpenBSD direction. I'd be very happy if it was ready to accept me as a desktop user then.