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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?]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by toastedlynx on Friday February 21 2014, @07:14AM
To be honest, yes, I personally dislike GNOME on principle. To me, I cannot get behind supporting a GUI that decides to scrap everything and try again every few years.
Though I can't speak for anyone else, another possibility for people disliking GNOME 3 is the fact it's a major reason for most of the big distros making SystemD the default and in many cases only init system, taking away those plain text logs so dearly loved and generally going against philosophies users of *NIX systems love.
You have a point, though. Linux and open source land is good for it's choice. The end-user should be free to choose whatever he/she/they wish. Perhaps that's another reason people dislike GNOME 3 and the SystemD it increasingly depends on. Their existence ends up reducing choice for the rest of us since all the distros wish to be up-to-date.
This story's about OpenBSD though. In the case of OpenBSD, I can't really understand how GNOME 3 is relevant or even wanted. Your point remains valid though. What makes open source great is the freedom of choice. What also makes it great is the community's feelings can and often does change the shape and direction of projects, too.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by bobintetley on Friday February 21 2014, @09:42AM
I don't feel too strongly about systemd.
I've only read a little and it seems to solve some security and other problems inherent with the old sysv init. It also seems to allow logging earlier in the boot process and uses the standard syslog, so why wouldn't it still produce text logs? Moving to declarative, config based scripts seems like (ostensibly) a good idea since all distros end up with their own libraries of bash functions to try and standardise init scripts anyway.
I'll reserve judgement on systemd until I've played with it a little and read more, but in general I think progress is to be encouraged!
You're right though, OpenBSD seems like an odd choice to use for a desktop given the distribution's niche - I'm surprised they even bother packaging X for it :)
(Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:23AM
To be honest, yes, I personally dislike GNOME on principle. To me, I cannot get behind supporting a GUI that decides to scrap everything and try again every few years.
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