Submitted by “OpenBSD 5.0 has been published, six months after the release of version 4.9. The OpenBSD project’s newest release of the free BSD based UNIX-like operating system includes a number new and updated drivers, performance improvements and new features. OpenBSD 5.0 includes the GNOME 2.32.2, KDE 3.5.10 and Xfce 4.8.0 desktop environments. It also contains a number of new and updated packages including versions 3.5.19, 3.6.18 and 5.0 of the Firefox web browser, PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.6, LibreOffice 3.4.1, and Chromium 12. The release includes September’s release of OpenSSH 5.9.” GNOME 2 you say? Huh. Interesting.
GNOME 2 you say? Huh. Interesting.
The -current ports tree is moving to GNOME 3.2 with several components being not ready yet. Too much otherwise unneeded stuff had to be ported to OpenBSD to make GNOME 3 update happen.
BTW, why don’t You use GNOME 3 in fallback mode?
And for those who don’t know, -current, which is the development branch of OpenBSD, is often more stable than many “stable” OSs out there.
KDE 3.5.10 looks a bit more interesting like that, anyway.
Most interesting, in relation to the treatment of the other two DEs, is probably Xfce 4.8.0 – apparently the current version.
The reason is simple – it takes much less to port, as it is less platform- and obscure-unneeded-libs-dependent.
GNOME 3 means that one need to port to BSDs pulseaudio and udisks, which are of no use there othrwise; also clutter is to be ported, and may be something else. KDE4 has the same problems plus it depends on half of the ports tree…
And all of that on a system where the majority of users prefer minimalist solutions like scrotwm+xxxterm+xterm.
There is a port of pulseaudio being worked on in the tree.
Effectively, the port of pulseaudio is finished. IIRC, the whole GNOME 3.2 is ported in -current though newer clutter version is worked on in order to run mutter and empathy’s calling functionality.
No. It has not.
What are You talking about? http://openports.se/audio/pulseaudio is there since September.
It’s only a basic port, a lot of stuff is disabled because it’s not used on OpenBSD.
It’s not finished.
Well, I hope that situation when a lot of stuff is disabled in pulseaudio will remain until it exists in OpenBSD – it is absolutely not needed here.
PulseAudio was a simply a case of “Solution in search of a problem”.
and it isn’t COMPLETE. It’s work in progress.
Exactly!!
I’ve never seen a screenshot of OpenBSD (or any BSD other than FreeBSD or PC-BSD, for that matter) running a full-blown DE. If it’s not X-less, then it’s usually a lightweight *box or tiling WM.
Want a screenshot of my desktop? I run Gnome 2 on OpenBSD.
Exactly what? Your comment makes zero sense. Just because you haven’t seen such a screenshot doesn’t mean I cannot setup my system with such a DE. Too many people make really stupid assumptions about OpenBSD as if it’s not even possible to have a system setup with these bloated DE’s.
One “lightweight *box” – Openbox – is, sort of, at the core of LXDE (even if this one’s rather light & modular – essentially following *nix philosophy, one might say – it still shoots for DE status even via its name…)
I think the openbsd webpage also deserve a makeover.
I disagree. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Their site is very usable, much more then those of most Linux distros. And it demonstrates the project’s philosophy: simplistic, informative, with easy access to documents and all the possibly distracting features are cut off.
I think those who prefer fancier sites are not the target auditory of the project.
And keep in mind it’s also a barrier-free presentation, so blind users can view the site and navigate it using a Braille readout or a voice synthesizer. This increases the target audience.
Form and content go hand in hand here. 🙂
With you mentioning that I thought I should mention there have been a few vision impaired users over the years post to our mailing lists mentioning how they are using OpenBSD.
Though a site can be both aesthetic and functional. Almost insisting this is an “either-or” situation is a poor defence.
Even a nice colour scheme (with some still simple layout) can do a lot, for the site to be more pleasant… while now, main OpenBSD page has blue (typical browser default) links on ~turquoise field, WTH? (it’s like somebody there assumes only blind visitors …and/or wants to put strain on the eyes of those who still can see
)
If Slackware site is much more aesthetic than yours, then you have a problem
Has someone installed gcc 4.6.1, netbeans or java in openbsd?
The system compiler is GCC 4.2.1 + patches, it is the last GPLv2 licensed version.
The ports tree has GCC 4.2.4 and 3.3.6 for some things that can’t be built with the system compiler.
Nothing is preventing you from compiling a newer version yourself, but, it might not actually produce working executables.. and it’s not supported.
And yes, ports exist for netbeans 6.9.1, jdk 1.6 and 1.7 (..openjdk).
Edited 2011-11-02 04:36 UTC
They are a bunch of traitors to the Free Software movement.
They prefer to use GPLed software as little as possible, they prefer to release software under BSD license, not GPL v3, which is very wrong.
They also prefer to use the term “Open Source” not “Free Software”, which is very wrong also. See here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
All people should free themselves by using one of the variants of the GNU Operating System (which is the only Free Software OS known to man) such as GNU/Linux.
I wouldn’t touch OpenBSD (or FreeBSD, or NetBSD) with a ten foot pole. I care too much about my freedom.
Shocking horror! They even talked about replacing the much superior and freer gcc with something as awful as llvm/clang. Which, as anyone can guess, is NOT licensed under GPL v3. Where is this world going?
No, not clang/llvm. gcc might be replaced by pcc at some point in time though, at least for building the base system.
The only compiler so far that has any chance of replacing GCC in base is LLVM. pcc has way too many issues for that to be a reality. A complete lack of arch support, no C++ support, no SIMD intrinsics support, etc.
Edited 2011-11-05 11:16 UTC
Shocking horror. We like having truly free software, not “free” with strings attached. GPLv3 is NOT free.
I see what you did there.
Why are they traitors to free software?
their software btw is actually included in pretty much every *nix … every heard of SSH. So if you are saying they are traitors so is every Distro using SSH … oh well good luck finding another implementation … you can always use putty on Windows … oh wait … you need to connect to SSH.
The license is pretty liberal and is even endorsed by the FSF.
<sarcasm>
BTW … I secretly agree … How dare they release software with a license they feel is appropriate
How dare a developer choose how their work is distributed!! … it not like they wrote it is it </sarcasm>
TBH not sure if Troll or Stupid …
Trololololo!!
Edited 2011-11-03 20:28 UTC