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Status Update for Gnome3 on OpenBSD

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @03:45AM   
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?]

• Re:Why the GNOME bashing? (Score: 2, Interesting) by mechanicjay on Friday February 21 2014, @12:08PM

  by mechanicjay (7) <{jason} {at} {smbfc.net}> on Friday February 21 2014, @12:08PM (#4391) Homepage Journal

  I was a Gnome guy all the way until Gnome 3. I tried, I really did. I gave it an honest 2 weeks, and never even started to feel comfortable in it. Then I tried KDE4 for a couple week, which I actually liked better, but was pretty heavy for some of the older hardware I was running. I've settled on XFCE4 at this point. It's lightweight, customizable enough and it doesn't get in the way.

  --
  My VMS box beat up your Windows box.

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