Hi All,
usage of an OS for "desktop purposes" is quite a broad term.
Few cases for obsd not suitable as desktop:
- At home, the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for obsd on desktop is negative
due lack of skype, and flash player.
- At work, need for virtual machines on laptop is a must, not very well met
in obsd.
So correct answer is: it depends!
best regards, Dilyan
2013/5/14 Mark Duller <mark.dul...@it.ox.ac.uk>
> On 14/05/2013 10:15, Stefan Wollny wrote:
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 um 08:31 Uhr Von: "Tomas Bodzar"
> > <tomas.bod...@gmail.com>
> >
> >>> on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific
> >>> work? please contact me off list. Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I'm not sure if there will be some official readings available (you
> >> can try BSDmag and similar resources), but it's completely possible
> >> and fine as long as there's SW you need in packages/ports or
> >> compilation works on your own. And you know, here are in use
> >> tradional Unix/Unix-like things so everything is possible.
> >>
> >> Yes, having it as desktop instead of Windows and/or Linux is
> >> working perfectly.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Full ACK.
> >
> > My impression is that most people who pretend that OpenBSD is not
> > suited as a desktop system are either ingnorant or just outright
> > lazy: - Ignorant on the fine work the developers and countless
> > porters did and/or - lazy to read the documentation (or if of
> > non-english mothertongue: too lazy to ask for help)
> >
> > There is NO general-purpose desktop-related task that cannot be done
> > with OpenBSD! Full stop. ('Bling-Bling' is NO general purpose
> > requirement!)
> >
> > Unless s.o. has to use some proprietary software that is tighly
> > linked to internals of an other OS there is no technical reason to
> > use any other OS as a basis for a desktop system
>
> except for resume from suspend not working and video driver issues (yes,
> those will work on some laptops, but did not on my Macbook Pro, so that
> is a technical reason for using another OS)
>
> >- only personal
> > likes ("I can't live without my 'bling-bling'-ads") and dislikes ("I
> > don't want to do my homework").
> >
> > I happily use OpenBSD on my laptop and on an iMac for all day-to-day
> > work as I have to ashure my clients that their data is save on my
> > systems. No other OS gives me that level of confidence.
> >
> > STEFAN
>
> --
> Mark Duller
> IT Services, University of Oxford
> Network Security Team - OxCERT
