Contributed by sean on from the yet-another-bit-gobbling-review dept.
NewsForge has a review of OpenBSD 3.5 on x86. Overall it's quite favorable and covers a lot of ground.
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OpenBSD Journal
Contributed by sean on from the yet-another-bit-gobbling-review dept.
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By Casey Roberts (129.118.131.150) casey.roberts@ttu.edu on
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By Michael Knudsen (82.150.71.100) e@mongers.org on
OpenBSD has received an increased amount of coverage and interest since at least the last three releases and it seems to increase its user base as well. The attention is well-deserved, we all know, since lots of good stuff has made it into the tree over the last few years.
I'm not sure more users is entirely a good idea. More users inevitably means more noise on the mailing lists etc. which consumes developer attention.
More _paying_ users, on the other hand, would be good, since it would allow the project to have more developers working full-time and generally improve development conditions.
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By Juanjo (84.120.176.33) on http://blackshell.usebox.net/
Yeah, It has increased its user base... al least in the reviewers :D
By Anonymous Coward (195.217.242.33) on
I have noticed however that a lot of users from other OSes tend to think that OpenBSD has the same goals as other distros
This can create a lot of noise
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By Anonymous Coward (67.71.119.19) on
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By Nate (209.162.224.62) nate@my-balls.com on
Perhaps even that would not do it, after all, not all developers go to the hackathons.
By Andreas Kahari (193.62.198.94) on
I might not be your average PHB, but I do think that with office applications like the ones in the KDE port, OpenBSD makes an excellent basis for a workplace desktop OS that can be used by a lot of people.
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By Anonymous Coward (142.166.105.64) on
The amazing thing is that OBSD comes as close as it does (with much better documentation). It's been my desktop for about 6 years, and I won't be changing. But I still have to acknowledge others systems have clearly put more focus on this area.
By Anonymous Coward (142.166.105.64) on
I'm still kind of curious how OpenOffice is coming along. I've seen it, but never really tried to use it in a serious way.
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By jtorin (217.215.193.248) on
I haven't used OO.org recently (or ever for that matter), but some years ago I managed to open a PowerPoint presentation in StarOffice that PowerPoint itself refused to open. Ofcourse I continued to work in StarOffice for the rest of that presentation. Since then I have a keen eye to OO.org, even if I don't use it. Someday a Office killer will come from that project, and the world will rejoice...
I use LaTeX for any serious document.
By Anonymous Coward (213.119.61.141) on
But I find it painfully slow, and it crashes quite often (almost like a windows application). Too slow to do real work with (on a p3 850, 256m ram, which should be enough for some word processing imho), and certainly too unstable. I just use it to be able to read MS Office documents some people keep on sending me :(
For real work, I use LaTeX (vi, latex and gv under X for previewing). That even works perfectly fine on my sparcstation 5 with 64m ram... :-)
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By Andreas Kahari (62.253.140.188) on
Take a look at the textproc/antiword port... That solves a lot of problems for me.