Desktop Metaphor

[Holm Tiffe]

Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:

> On 10/23/18 3:29 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
> 
> >> FreeBSD may not have the installed base of Linux but it has a its fans.
> > 
> > Yes, this workstation runs FreeBSD 10.4 and Xfce.
> 
> I prefer OpenBSD myself for mission-critical stuff--the nearly paranoid
> attitude to new software is unusual to say the least.   Even old
> packages that have had demonstrated security issues are omitted.   You
> want to use telnet?  Good, find a version somewhere and convert and
> compile it yourself--we're not even going to give you a telnet client,
> much less a host.
> 
> Was VirtualBox or QEMU ever offered as a standard package on OpenBSD?  I
> don't think so...
> 
> --Chuck
> 

For mission critical stuff this may be ok, but what's the
advantage for the desktop if you can't even run Virtualbox or Qemu,
simh, cpmsim, dosbox and other related stuff?
The same problem on Dragonfly, Nice File system (Hammer,Hammer2)
but....

Regards,

Holm
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