what a fast machine Espie uses ! i am unfamiliar with programing . so i say only from my little expirience .
when using 6.0 , a specific PC could not run xfce which was installed by pkg_add . so i installed from ports , then xfce run well . by the way it is astonishing that openbsd's *all* binary is made by source ( ABC & 123 ). this is very educational for young students . the othe hand linux is limitted to kernel and aplication only to general users . --- regards