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Status Update for Gnome3 on OpenBSD

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @03:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gnomes-for-Theo dept.

joekiser writes:

"Antoine Jacoutot has given a status update for GNOME users of OpenBSD, including a short video. The GNOME release has been updated to 3.10.2, and auto-mounting of devices is now supported through a new helper program, toad. Now is a great time for desktop users to test the upcoming OpenBSD release. The ports tree was recently locked for stability testing ahead of the 5.5 release, meaning that recent -CURRENT builds are very close to what will be released in May. Antoine also addresses the upcoming issues non-Linux systems face with GNOME, such as the upcoming hard dependency on systemd."

[ED Note: I ran an OpenBSD router box years ago when tinkering about with an old PII with four NICs seemed worthwhile. The OS lived up to it's rep, but it never occurred to me to use it for a desktop system. Are any Soylentils using OpenBSD for a GNOME-based workstation?]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by space_in_your_face on Friday February 21 2014, @04:28AM

    by space_in_your_face (224) on Friday February 21 2014, @04:28AM (#4165)

    The real question is : can you use your computer as a workstation when it's running gnome 3?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by toastedlynx on Friday February 21 2014, @04:42AM

    by toastedlynx (2267) on Friday February 21 2014, @04:42AM (#4169)

    It was my opinion that one of the major draws of OpenBSD was Gnome 3 incompatibility.

    Apparently nowhere is sacred.

    • (Score: 1) by joekiser on Friday February 21 2014, @07:14AM

      by joekiser (1837) on Friday February 21 2014, @07:14AM (#4229)

      On the contrary, OpenBSD is the best place in *BSD land for Gnome compatibility. Now if its KDE you want, you'll have to go elsewhere.

      --
      The World is Yours.

      Former /. user (Moderator - 189749)

  • (Score: 1) by crutchy on Friday February 21 2014, @04:50AM

    by crutchy (179) on Friday February 21 2014, @04:50AM (#4170) Homepage Journal

    as long as gedit works, i'm good :-)

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @06:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @06:13AM (#4199)

    A bus stops at a bus station. A train stops at a train station. Work stops...

    Seems Gnome 3 would be perfect for a work station.