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Status Update for Gnome3 on OpenBSD

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @07:45AM   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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @11:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @11:20PM (#4597)

    Running services from packages is not something you do on a regular OpenBSD system. Anything I care about can be set as a variable in rc.conf.local. Of course the article is about Gnome, so you are going to get everything and its grandmother running as an insidious service. Good luck.