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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: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:10AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:10AM (#4696)

    SN does support UTF8. However, various bits (lameness filter, preview, "Code" or "Extrans" modes) don't work or don't work well with it (yet). While I haven't tried it much myself, I've heard less reports of problems when inserting html entities than directly inserting the UTF8 character.

    I'm posting this in "Plain Old Text" mode, and inserting a &#946; here: β <--- did it work? (preview says yes)

    And inserting the character itself here: β <--- and did this work? (preview says no)

    (Both those, if they come through right, will be actual betas, not eszetts. The whole point of unicode is so we don't have the limitations that led to using one glyph to represent eszett and beta...)