Crowding out OpenBSD

Re:Crowding out OpenBSD by Wilya on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:18AM (#5324554)

The BSD in general (I mostly know FreeBSD, but I doubt OpenBSD is much better) haven't been perfect for running desktop software, and especially the big desktop environments, for a long time. If they ever were adequate.

It can be done, but with quite a bit of tweaking, battling strange inconsistencies, and in the end, missing some functionality compared to the same thing on linux. Possible, but not by any stretch a core value proposition or a major component direction of the projects (whatever they officially say). Or at least, not the successful projects.

Sucks to see a lot of things becoming linux-specific, but in a ton of these cases, the impact on the BSDs will be minimal.

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Re:Crowding out OpenBSD by iso-8859-1 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:31AM (#5324628)

Isn't this the goal of PC-BSD? As far as I know, it is no failure.

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Re:Crowding out OpenBSD by Wilya on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @10:16AM (#5324872)

I wouldn't call it a failure, but it's not really a success either. At least not yet.

I don't know anyone who uses it, nor do I really hear about it apart from the people developing it. Sometimes, people mention it, in a "Maybe you should try PC-BSD, I've heard it's good" kind of way, but that's as far as it goes.

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Re:Crowding out OpenBSD by pconf on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @10:35PM (#5329157)

It's working for me, but KDE4 isn't nearly as user-friendly as KDE3

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