Here is my repaired post - Sorry ! I have long used OpenBSD on small servers or to run half a dozen Xterms, but when upgrading an old Optiplex 745 to 5.8, I decided to bite the bullet and install a desktop. I had always assumed Iâd get it running but it would be a configuration nightmare and Iâd have to rebuild menus and fiddle with settings for eons and that nothing would ever work quite right. I'm pleased to say that my assumptions were completely wrong. It took less than half an hour to install XFCE4 and configure everything perfectly, including downloading packages. There was no esoteric configuration necessary, just basic common sense things.
I'm sold on the OpenBSD desktop. -Bill Sorenson On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Bill Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > My original post seems to have been truncated. > On Oct 24, 2015 4:46 PM, "Daniel Villarreal" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I use OpenBSD with Xfce for my main Desktop and it's rock-solid, easy to >> use, easy to update. Even on my old hardware, it's very smooth. >> >> I'm getting ready to update to 5.8 and also install on an extra hard >> drive for another computer here. I'm really looking forward to even more >> high-quality computing with OpenBSD. >> >> regards, >> Daniel Villarreal >> https://ideas2learn.wordpress.com/ >> >> On 10/24/15 16:29, Bill Sorenson wrote: >> >>> I have long used OpenBSD on small servers or to run half a dozen Xterms, >>> but >>> when upgrading an old Optiplex 745 to 5.8, I decided to bite the bullet >>> and >>> install a desktop. I had always assumed Iâd get it running but it would >>> be a >>> configuration nightmare and Iâd have to rebuild menus and fiddle with >>> settings for eo
