Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-16 Thread Ralph Ellis
On 05/16/12 08:14, Mihai Popescu wrote: Ralph Ellis wrote: I understand that Intel is much more open with their documentation and specifications. As someone said, it is "open for business." As for the review, I'm asking myself why people publish a review and then ask for opinions. It should be

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Ralph Ellis wrote: > I understand that Intel is much more open with their documentation and > specifications. As someone said, it is "open for business." As for the review, I'm asking myself why people publish a review and then ask for opinions. It should be the other way around, not making sta

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-15 Thread Ralph Ellis
On 05/15/12 05:58, Alexander Polakov wrote: * Ralph Ellis [120515 02:22]: Hi, As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support and ease of se

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:57 +0400 Alexander Polakov wrote: > You forgot "in my case" part. There're no proprietary video drivers, > right, but free drm infrastructure provides acceleration for many cards. ATI and AMD but NOT NVIDIA? May as well give nvidia a kick wherever possible to go open as

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 20:13:39 -0400 Weldon Goree wrote: > flash > > via linux emulation Flash has never really been supported on Linux with poor video performance. Yes flash has more overhead than just playing a video, but not that much! (A system that runs doom 3 at full can't run semi-HD when a

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-15 Thread Alexander Polakov
* Ralph Ellis [120515 02:22]: > Hi, > As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of > the 5.1 release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's > perspective. > Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support > and ease of setup and my experience has been very

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:55:32AM -0400, Ralph Ellis wrote: > For some reason, even though dmeg sees the printer at ulpt0, I could > not get cups to see the printer connected to my usb port. That is because you did not read the package documentation available at /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/c

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph Ellis
On 05/14/12 23:09, Daniel Melameth wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Ralph Ellis wrote: As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware suppor

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Ralph Ellis wrote: > As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 > release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. > Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support and ease > of setup and my experience

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 16:48 -0400, Ralph Ellis wrote: > > > You are quite right. I meant that the i386 version could access flash > via linux emulation through Opera. This is no longer true. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/opera-flashplugin/Attic/Makefile NB "Kill it with fire".

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph Ellis
On 05/14/12 16:16, David Coppa wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ralph Ellis wrote: Hi, As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware suppor

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread David Coppa
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ralph Ellis wrote: > Hi, > As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 > release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. > Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support and ease > of setup and my expe