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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: 1) by evilviper on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:40AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:40AM (#4703) Homepage Journal

    KMS is a misfeature, because restarting X11 doesn't reinitialize the graphics driver anymore. If your video card driver has ANY bugs at all, you have to reboot the entire system, rather than being able to restart X11. I've seen this first-hand with older Intel graphics.

    It's patently anti-Unix philosophy to have booting-up to a text console depend on something as large and complex as graphical video card drivers. Now instead of an upgrade possibly breaking graphics, it renders your system entirely unusable even from the command-line where you might fix it. Prioritizing graphics performance over system stability is utterly wrong-headed.

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