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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: 4, Interesting) by GeminiDomino on Friday February 21 2014, @10:48AM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Friday February 21 2014, @10:48AM (#4331)

    Why is everyone so down on GNOME? Do the people bashing it actually use it or just dislike it on principle?

    Cleverly subtle, the false dichotomy was almost easy to miss. It's also completely possible to try it, realize that it's a steaming pile, and move to something else, like you say later.

    The GNOME project has a long history of "our way or the highway" and combined that, in GNOME 3, with change for the sake of change and the snake oil that is "UX." The abomination that resulted spent a week getting in my way before I decided to wipe it and install Xubuntu (and the GNOME crap is creeping into that one now, too. Might be time to switch to Mint)

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