In general I really like and appreciate all that is done by developers with OpenBSD. The OS is stable and it works well, and shipping it with X already functional is a big help, especially on older boxes. Because to compile xorg with this old sparc box under FreeBSD was taking > 24 hours and it still was not done.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Gregor Best <g...@ring0.de> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:06:10AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > > I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but > > applications like Firefox will not work without installing another DE, > > [...] > > That is not true. I ran Firefox and Chrome on a clean OpenBSD 4.9 > installation when it was released and I have been able to since then, > and I find it hard to believe it was different before. > > > [...] > > XFCE; why not ship OpenBSD with the basic X, but with the necessary > > libraries to allow FireFox to run and other applications like R to output > > graphics? Also why not go ahead and ship with Firefox? The disk would > > still be within the size of a standard CD. > > [...] > > Installing Firefox with pkg_add adds the required libraries > automatically. If it does not, that's a bug in the port that should be > reported. > > Adding Firefox to the base system would be a very bad idea. It is a huge > load of code that needs to be maintained and not everyone uses Firefox. > What if I want Chrome instead? Add that to base? What about dillo? > netsurf? Why not add OpenOffice while we are at it? > > -- > Gregor Best
